[PLUG] Linux Expo/Demo/whatever

[Steve Bourland]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, A Braunsdorf wrote:

> 
> You could set up a samba server on a third machine, and then show
> that both the MS Windows machine with MS Office and the Linux
> machine with whatever office could both load the same files.  It'd
> be an even better demo if the Linux machine were noticeably quicker.
> Is it?

Well, I would always want to assume so, but I am a bit blinded by hatred
of Macrohard.  I can say that when it comes to mp3 compression (more than
one at a time), my Win95 box gets DESTROYED by my Linux box.  However,
this isn't an apples to apples comparison:  495 MHz K6-3 on the Linux box,
300 MHz PII on the Win95, SCSI vs. EIDE as well.  However, the Win95 box
has a hard time playing Winamp while ripping a CD and moving a window on
the screen, but my Linux box will happily encode 4 files while playing
XMMS without a hitch, I can even play a very slow game of Xboing!  It
would definitely be wise to have a pre-determined demo of something
superior though...marketing, you have to hate it.