Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, Leonard_Ong@iname.com produced: [replying to the list, he is, but he should have composed a new message --- not doing so wreaks havok on the threading!]
2) Is there a program that let us know the real speed of our connection in real time ? i.e. NetMedic ( <A HREF="http://www.vitalsigns.com"><A HREF="http://www.vitalsigns.com</A">http://www.vitalsigns.com</A</A>> ) for Windows platform ?
xosview, look into the lower right corner of your X. Look at NET.
7) One of my friend once said using modules is slower than hard compiling it. Is it true ?
A bit, but since you use a GUI (graphical user interface) you need not worry, the GUI is MUCH MUCH slower. Anyway, you save memory (more memory == faster) and can upgrade (some) drivers without rebooting --- important to servers, bugfixing, testing config options, ...
9) Is program that is cpu intensive faster in Linux ? Such as encoding MP3, etc
Faster in Linux compared with what? DOS? No, Dos is 1-5 0.000000aster, since Linux has a small overhead, where Dos has none - it has no brain. But Linux has a better HD cache. WinXX? Yes. WinXX is a bloat. It also depends on whether you want to work on the machine at the same time (e.g. typing costs no computing power) or do some more CPU intensive stuff or have memory shortages or ...
10) Online in slow modem e.g. 33,6 same speed in Linux / windows ? or one better than another ?
Linux has the far far better IP stack. And you can tune Linux. And Linux is safer by default and can be made much safer than WinXX ever can hope to (except by pulling the plug).
12) Anyone has seen "Linux man pages" from <A HREF="http://www.lsl.com"><A HREF="http://www.lsl.com</A">http://www.lsl.com</A</A>> ? is it good
I guess that are the manpages describing the internal works of Linux. -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e