Narramissic writes "Doing a run speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered individual odd, article that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC alternate a rating of 12-14mbps. The two integrated circuitry used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular combined desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much divergence in cyberspace compute speeds or does Ubuntu handles connections that much faster than Windows XP?"

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