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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?"
There's no reason why you can't just move the ram and re-run the tests. Time loss to you: 10 minutes.
vs being lazy an asking getting subjective answers by asking slashdot: 406735 minutes.
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this test is pretty much all bollocks... unless the SAME machine was used, and not similar machines (2 machines with the same parts isnt even good enough), then the results are not valid.
you would also need to enroll a non-bias 3rd party to conduct the test, using a non-biased software.
come back when you have done your tests properly
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Are windows graphics drivers better than the linux kernel?"
Short answer: No
Long answer: You have obviously have never used Windows update to acquire graphics drivers.
Third-party drivers might be superior compared to Linux, but not what Windows provides.