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dear sir,
I have P IV with 128 ram,I want to know that which is the fastest OS for accessing internet to my PC.
With the best regards
Ghazanfar
You haven't indicated how you access the net, i.e. dialup or broadband. Linux is superior to Xp if you use dialup. Broadband is anybodies guess.
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Internet speed depends on the connection, cable and modem. If you have 56Kbps then 4.8Kb/s is the average speed that you will get, whether XP, W2K or linux. ISDN, ADSL is much more expensive and you'll have to pay to get higher datarate. Operating system has very little to do with internet's speed. Linux tends to work better with external modems.
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I don't recommend WinXP neither recent releases of Linux without 128MB of RAM.
Who sell you a P4 with 128MB of RAM!?
First thing you should upgrade at least to 256MB (recommend 512MB).
You will never make full usage of your P4 CPU ressources with that amount of memory.
With 128MB of RAM, I recommend Windows 98 version 2 or an older version of Linux.
And it doesn't make any difference which OS you use for Internet access. Your type of Internet access will be the bottleneck, not the OS|CPU|RAM, it is all in the applications that you use that will make the difference of OS to choose...
Hope this help you.
Twisgabak
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The fastest tcp/ip stack around is in BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD). As far as Linux, Slackware performs rather well.
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It doesn't really matter, all of the OS's are going to be way faster than your connection to the internet anyway.
Internet surfing is only as fast as the slowest componet in the total connection.
The OS is almost never the slowest part, some switch or router or bad copper wire somewhere in the world is the part that brings speed down.
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What do you mean it doesn't matter????!!!
Man, I'd love to slap Windows, Linux, and BSD on one PC, and show you how wrong you are. I guarantee you, BSD would perform best, Linux Second, and Windows would come in dead last -- regardless of the internet connection.
I think you spend too much time with your head up Bill's butt. The crap you spread on this forum always contains the same message: ALL OPERATING ARE ALIKE.
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You are such a dick, he asked about the internet, not reading and writing files to the hard drive or loading programs into memory, or how the kernel posts to the l2 cache on a processer.
If you run command line and use command line browsers, yes they load up much faster than a bloated gui.
BUT the internet and it's packet get/retrive transfer is what it is, and THAT is what he asked about. (Put dos 6.22 and an early verison of Netscape on that p4 and see how fast it runs.)
And for your info, im on a linux machine, NOT a windows machine. Maybe if you got your head out of your own ass you might see the bigger picture, the entire world does not revolve around any one os at the expenice of the other, regardless of what you may wish to belive.
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It has been my experience that Linux is much faster at downloads and surfing than windoz period. Dailup or Broadband.I used our DSL at work on day and did 177 mb in Linux in the same amount of time it took for 35 in windoze. Same PC a dual boot XP Pro and RedHat 9 2400+ and 512 ddr
Take Care
Ron
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I do dual boot with win2k and RH 9.0 as well and have other boxes RH 9.0 alone all connected with t1 at work, have not noticed any meaningful difference across any platform.
Time of day does seem to matter, as well as which web site im downloading from.
I visit severl sites on a weekly basis to download database updates, anywhere from 7meg to 1 gig. Sometimes on the rh box sometimes on the win box. One time one will be faster, the next time the other one will.
Which is why my original post of the connection it's self is more of a factor in internet speed.
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Drivers could actually have something to do with it. I have an Actiontec External modem. In Linux it connects at 41333bps but if I boot to XP, it connects at 34000bps--every time. Could be drivers, could be that Windows sucks.
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yes my point exactlly, could be lots of things, and the os is usually the last to check because it's usually not the main bottle neck.
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