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Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's
narramissic writes "Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"
If you can prove to people that you can download pr0n faster using Linux, they WILL switch!
I'm kidding! I'm kidding!
(or, am I?)
His window machine's contribution to a bot net is probably hogging some bandwidth.
The test was done on machines with differing configurations, so therefore is not valid. But interesting nonetheless.
Yeah, I wasn't even the same *operating system* !
I mean, apple and oranges !
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Better yet, swap the hard drives.
One machine has a Hello Kitty sticker on it and faces West. Irrelevant? WE REPORT, YOU DECIDE!
Maybe the tester is too close to a mental energy vortex...
Already been said, but the article is terrible(WTF is wrong with you, Timothy) because the comparisons were done on two separate configurations. Would it have been that difficult to try fresh-out-the-box installs of each OS on the same box and/or maybe tried fresh-out-the box installs on the other box as well?
TFA might as well have been titled, "My left nut is larger than my right nut but does it produce more sperm than my right nut? Discuss." The sad thing is that people are discussing things other that what a stupid fucking article this is.
Yes, because the only major difference, the 256 megs of more RAM, really is what gave them double internet speeds on the test. Hahahahaha, yeah right. I guess I'm going to have to go stick another gig of RAM in my box so I can get 4x the internet bandwidth of what I have now!
That's not your left nut. That's your head. Disgust.
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Come on man, it's proof, PROOF that Windows is half the speed of Linux. Who are you to question this informal result? I say we go to town with it and make everyone switch!!!11
Sure, then he'll have to buy another XP license just for the test.
Is that you Steve?
...Rob
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Hmm... They both seem to get to the "Sorry, we can only stream to the United States" screen at about the same speed.
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For every month I use Ubuntu, my penis grows three inches longer, so every couple of months I switch back to Windows and after a few weeks, it's back to normal. I would try OS X, but a friend had it, and he turned gay.
More than 60,000 Windows programs won't run on Linux.
This is too easy to test by swapping the memory between the two machines to actually pose as a question on Slashdot. How lazy can you be about this?
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How cunning.
It was originally implemented in Windows 98, and it was the BSOD stack.
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