On Sunday 17 February 2002 09:33, Christopher John Shaker wrote:
I recently upgraded my dual boot workstation (SuSE Linux 7.3
and Windows) from Win2K to WinXP Home, and WinXP is even faster than Win2K. It boots faster. It's display drivers are very fast. It's network stack seems faster than Win2K's.
The hardware is a 1.4 Ghz Athlon/Duron, 768 MB DDR PCI 2100 RAM, Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI, Quantum Atlas 10K 18WLS Ultra/160 Wide SCSI drive, and NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 Pro. This machine is on a fast, land based network (768 kbit/sec, bidirectional).
Even Microsoft doesn't consider XP Home an upgrade from 2K, since it drops several features of 2K. You can't make a blanket statement about XP being faster, particularly since it is optimized for IDE drives and not for SCSI. I don't know anyone who has tested an XP system for SCSI disk writes in blocks > 256KB without finding an Achilles' heel of XP. I'll grant you
James:
I never had a problem installing Win2K on this or any other hardware.
It *was* a pain in the rear installing all of the updates from the windows
update site, with the many reboots required to get it done.
It's also a pain in the rear applying all of the required updates for
Office 2K... StarOffice is a lot easier and quicker to install.
As far as IDE vs SCSI performance under WinXP home, my wife's
workstation is an IDE based system, and mine is the SCSI system
detailed below. Her machine has an 1.533 Ghz AMD Athlon XP.
Both have MSI Via KT266 based motherboards. Both seem equally
zippy running WinXP Home edition.
Win2K was the first Microsoft OS that was worth beans. Win 3.0, 3.1,
Win95, Win98, and Win98SE all sucked rocks. I've suffered through
them all.
I used to use FreeBSD, Corel Linux Deluxe, Corel Linux Deluxe Second
Edition, Debian Woody, SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional, and now use SuSE
Linux 7.3 Professional. It works pretty well on my SMP K7 server.
Chris Shaker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Prince"
XP may be easier to install on a system like yours, where 2K will be lacking many required drivers, or may fail to install even the ones which it has on the CD.