On Sunday 09 July 2006 12:35 pm, अिनकॆत (Aniket) wrote:
Well I have been using Linux since the days I did not have an Internet connection..and believe me without an internet connection its pretty difficult to get a Linux box do all the things that a windoze box would do(I am talkin about multimedia capabilities..for office stuff its fine coz OO.o is mostly preinstalled). Also the various dependencies etc take up a lot of downlaod MB's. I have a friend of mine who was actually finding it very difficult to manage all his yum downloads within the 400MB limit in TriBand. I am more fortunate to have unlimited download internet connection. What I wanna say is that average bandwidth usage is actually more in Linux than Windoze(p2p excluded) as the most common software in windoze like Winamp will be readily available from a friend as compared to say xine-libs ,libdvdcss and kaffeine!!
all standard stuff on most distros. But you forget your daily dose of Anti Venom downloads dose every day not to mention the fact that holes and bugs get fixed in the next new improved M$ malware never on a regular basis. If the hole /bugfix was anywhere near the rate of GNU distros u would require a T1 pipe straight to redmond.
If u plan to stay updated yes u require plenty of BW. Otoh my woody box hasnt been upgraded since 2.4.18 so the download on that machine is a few milibits per month.