Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 17:54 UTC
David Williams over at iTWire has done a comparison of Windows vs Linux. It is performed by doing functionally identical tasks in both the OSes. This comparison is not a fair one by any measure. The laptops running the Windows and Linux were different in the hardware config and the software used for the tests were comparable but clearly different (MS Office vs OpenOffice; IE vs Firefox 3).
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RE[3]: What a waste of disk space...
by raver31 on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 19:45
in reply to "RE[2]: What a waste of disk space..."
Member since:2005-07-06
"Install the OS, do the timings, clear the machine, install the other OS, do the timings again. "
You don't even need to wipe out one OS to install another. You can simply install both in the same time and dual boot.
Edit: on the same machine I mean (just to clarify things).
You don't even need to wipe out one OS to install another. You can simply install both in the same time and dual boot.
Edit: on the same machine I mean (just to clarify things).
You cant do that either, the OS that is installed at the start of the drive will enjoy faster access times than the OS installed from the later parts of the platters.
RE[4]: What a waste of disk space...
by _txf_ on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 21:13
in reply to "RE[3]: What a waste of disk space..."
Member since:2008-03-17
You cant do that either, the OS that is installed at the start of the drive will enjoy faster access times than the OS installed from the later parts of the platters.
Not necessarily true...
NTFS tries to put everything in order initially (from the beginning of the drive). Hence accessing something at the beginning of the partition then getting something at the end is going to inccur latency.
ext3 (dunno about the others) writes data on either side of the middle of the partition so that for any given data at any given time data is closer to the drive head. This is also the main reason ext3 does not fragment as easily as ntfs.
Stuff at the beggining will ony be faster for things like bootups and when the drive heads are parked.
Edited 2008-07-22 21:15 UTC
RE[4]: What a waste of disk space...
by Bending Unit on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 23:16
in reply to "RE[3]: What a waste of disk space..."
Member since:2005-07-06
RE[3]: What a waste of disk space...
by bert64 on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 08:19
in reply to "RE[2]: What a waste of disk space..."
Member since:2007-04-23
Member since:
2008-04-18
"Install the OS, do the timings, clear the machine, install the other OS, do the timings again. "
You don't even need to wipe out one OS to install another. You can simply install both in the same time and dual boot.
Edit: on the same machine I mean (just to clarify things).
Edited 2008-07-22 19:24 UTC