Re: [SLUG] I am impressed!!

From: Bill (selinux@home.com)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 00:38:45 EST


On Wednesday 07 November 2001 17:46, you wrote:

>
> I'm not being sarcastic! It really _does_ make me flip when I think
> about the waste that Windows dumps on my hardware.... for myself, my
> modem connects and receives faster under Linux than in Windows 95 or
> 98SE.
>

Ditto. With a 56k modem, I saw normal download speeds go from a Win95 / 98
normal of about 3 - 5 k/s to about 7 - 12 k/s under Linux. Although the
numbers are still pretty low ... you can go away for the weekend while a
kernel downloads ... that is still about 125 - 130% increase in speed.
With Linux, take the weekend off ... with WIndows, start the download on
Monday to have available for the following weekend :-)

Bill

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             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1545484     891924     653560          0     292360     378176
-/+ buffers/cache:     221388    1324096
Swap:       401584          0     401584
Linux a.genesis.com 2.4.13 #3 Mon Nov 5 23:04:22 EST 2001 i686 unknown
  9:57pm  up 1 day, 22:30,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.03



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