Quote Originally Posted by pstone
.... xfering 15gigs of data at a stead 12mbit a second

That's just not right... XP to XP it's running a lot faster then that...
There is absolutely no reason to think that Microsoft wouldn't deliberately work slower when it detects a non-Xp OS out there. In fact I can assure you that it does. Of course, I can't say that this is a deliberate effort to make Linux look bad, but form your own opnion about that.

If transfer speed matters then I suggest firing up an FTP server on XP and using Konquror as an FTP client on Knoppix, your transfers will be much faster (with the same ethernet drivers).