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Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
(CHOKES DOWN LAUGHTER). No dude, I'm no stupid windoid. My system is clean: no spyware no virii.
I ran the tests several times booting one OS right after the other.
Broadband and Narrowband speeds are very slow. If the TCP/IP implementation was so much better (it isn't, they're about the same and with Longhorn, WIndows might even have a better implementation) with Linux and that bad with Windows, you'd still not notice it as much as you said you did.
Either you used a java client to do the speed tests (i'll save my java rantings for another time), your ISP does local caching, or you're just bullshitting to try and put Microsoft down.
Also, what distro are you running and what kernel versions? If you're comparing a new-ish linux distribution with a new (or new-ish) kernel to Windows 98, that's just retarded especially since the TCP/IP implementation did improve (slightly) with NT.
Also, virus is singular,
NOT virii. Virii isn't even a word.
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Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
And why not use W98? My computer runs linux 95% of the time and W98 works ok for the last 5%.
Windows 98 is horrible and
old. If you use Linux, there is no reason to even have Windows 98 on that system. WineX would do just as good, and maybe even better job at running Windows applications than Windows98.