Re: Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:58:06 -0600

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:41 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> On my home computer and office computer, I have logged the time taken upto
> logging in, it turns out that Ms windows(XP) is faster than Linux. On both
> computers, dma is turned on.On my home computer, I have SUSE, Fedora and
> Knoppix (debian) installed and on office computer, only Fedora. I have
> measured with all the distros and while knoppix is faster of the distros,
> still it doesn't measure upto Windows in speed. Both fedora and SUSE take
> about one and a times longer time, evrything else remaining same.
>
> Any comments ? Or am I missing something ?
>

Also Windows 2000 & Windows XP from my experience give the "press ctrl-
alt-del to logon" about 20-30 seconds before all the services are loaded
and you can actually logon. Microsoft considers offering the ability to
logon before you actually can a "user experience enhancement" giving the
appearance of quicker startup.

I would agree though that XP generally boots faster than Linux because
XP from what I remember that it starts services it can in parallel where
it can. Currently Fedora and other Linux distros start services
sequentially and the last service to start is the display manager that
gives the logon prompt.

As other replies have mentioned, there is some work being done by
various groups to speed up the boot process and there are other
mitigating circumstances.
1. Little need to reboot just to things "acting odd"
2. Updates and Patches generally don't require a system reboot.
3. Linux for the most part has been a server OS and basically you only
reboot servers on the weekend or other scheduled down-time and if it
boots up in 30 seconds or 5 minutes does not really matter. On my dell
servers at work the BIOS takes longer to boot than Linux does.

One thing that can speed up the boot process by several seconds on Red
Hat based distros is disabling kudzu (new hardware detection service)
you can do this by "chkconfig kudzu off" as root. The downside to this
is if you do add new hardware it won't automatically be installed, this
can be gotten around by "service kudzu start" as root.

Regards,
Paul Berger

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