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From: Bill <selinux@home.com>
Reply-To: slug@nks.net
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] I am impressed!!
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 00:38:45 -0500
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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