[PLUG] Linux Expo/Demo/whatever

[Richard June]

Why not have a demo of two machines doing something very common... like
gaming? load QIII on 2 identical machines, just for kicks have the Linux
box rip a CD and make an MP3 while playing.. should be able to handle it.
Hell my li'l P233MMX Can push 25-30 fps in QIII a faster box should be
able to do significantly better.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Steve Bourland wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, A Braunsdorf wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> 
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