Re: Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat
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- Subject: [mg21154] Re: [mg20952] Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat
- From: Bojan Bistrovic <bojanb at physics.odu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:22:19 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Old Dominion Universityaruba
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Rob Smith wrote: > > I too am now running under Red Hat 6.0 and, wow, what a huge difference. > I do alot of graphics and manipulations with fairly large lists. Under > Windoze I would routinely reboot every hour or so also--I spent almost as > much time saving and rebooting (and recalculating lost work) as I did > doing my work in the first place! I'm now running on a 450 MHz P-III > with 256 MB RAM and haven't crashed Mathematica a single time. And if > anybody wants more incentive to switch to Linux check this out: I boot > Win95 and Red Hat 6.0 off the same machine and 1) my CPU runs 8 degrees > Celsius cooler under Linux and 2) my 56K modem connection is 10 times > faster under Linux. No, I am not kidding. > > Rob Smith > Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry > Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine > Baltimore, MD 21205 I had a similar (dual boot) setting and I did some testing as well. Under Linux calculations appear to be cca. 10-15% faster. I'm not just talking about the "processor time"; I'd leave long calculation on the computer and Linux would do it in about 13 hours while Windows95 required ove 14 hrs. If that's not enough, what is? -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Bojan Bistrovic, bojanb at physics.odu.edu Old Dominion University, Physics Department, Norfolk, VA -------------------------------------------------------------