OS Performance
zscoundrel
zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Thu Nov 22 14:52:34 CST 2001
I would like to see some real world comparisons. End-to-end comparisons
of real tasks like operning spreadsheets, calculating data and
spell-checking a 300 word letter. The kinds of tasks a real person migh
encounter in the course of a real day. Oh, some timing on web surfing
might be good too. I know my free cell works better and faster on Linux
than it does on my wife's indenitcal 'doze 98 machine, and I have far
fewer lock-ups, but as far as surfing or anything else, it is too close
to call.
One comparison I can see right off is the availablility of drivers for
hardware. EVERY time I buy some hardware without checking to see of it
is compatible, I regret it. Xerox seams to be the worst. Customer
service does not return Email or phone messages when you tel them you
have linux. I guess they only consider 'doze customers to be real
customers.
Anybody know if there are Linux drivers for the xerox m750 workcentre?
I have looked and looked, but haven't found anything yet. I would just
write it off and buy another printer, but I can't afford it right now,
and the old HP I had been using is shot.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeremy Fowler [mailto:jfowler at westrope.com]
>
>> Well MaximumPC Magazine ...
>
>
> .... never saw a Microsoft product it didn't love.
>
> Performance? Compared to what? XP on 1+ GHz out-performs 95 on a P200,
> sure. That's how MS has been selling it's "performance improvements" all
> along. But there's just no way that much code bloat can run faster or
> better than NT4 or 95 on equivalent hardware.
>
> If you need real, side-by-side performance tests, several have been
> published by "real" reviewers including Infoworld. I've got 'em here
> somewhere, I'll post links.
>
> Relevant to Linux, I don't know if I've seen any tests comparing XP to, say,
> Mandrake 8.1. Perhaps we could come up with some relevant tests? The only
> thing I can think of right off would be to compare Netscape on Mandrake to
> Netscape on 95 and on XP. (Does 4.7 run on XP at all?) What else could we
> compare?
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--
At 20, I was liberal, because I had nothing to lose and so much to gain.
by 40, I was conservative, because I had so much to lose and so little to gain.
Isn't it amazing what 20 years of hard work and experience will do for ones' point of view?
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