[plug] Microsoft Vs Linux ...

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Thu Apr 1 10:39:46 WST 1999


Oliver White wrote:
> Basicaly the thing that pushed me over the edge was the inability for my 2
> year old installation of windows to supply me with uninterupted ascii
> input (eg/ irc, word processing).

I utterly bogged a Windows box (P-233) this morning trying to run 3xFTP
client sessions over a 10Mb/s UTP (ethernet) link. Netscape took about 5
minutes to start! The ancient P-90 across the room, running Linux, turns
the card's network-activity light hard on under the same circumstances
and NS takes about 10 extra seconds at the testing-DNS-function step,
but otherwise it doesn't notice the load.

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