Re: NT4.0 way faster than Linux 2.2.2 ???

[Eric Windisch <southpark@nni.com>]

It might have just been a bad day for that Windows box.. but I ran that
system out of the
box and opened notepad.exe, took 5 seconds... Notepad.exe doesn't even
take that long to
load with WINE, let alone an ELF binary with the same features.  Is that
a benchmark
enough for you  ? ;)  I can run VMWare with NT4, my XawTV, Netscape,
Quake2, and Epic at
the same time in Linux.  Id like to see this same system try that in
NT.. you can't.
NT would require DirectX for the Quake2 and XawTV.. and forget about
trying to multitask
(let alone using a Creative Labs 3d Blaster Voodoo2 in a windowing
environment)

-Eric Windisch


"Roger C. Scudder Jr." wrote:

> Eric...
> I'm curious... when you say is smokes your friends PII it sounds very subjective.
> Have you actually done some form of speed testing from which you can provide
> your result data?
>
> I am a big Linux fan... been running it since 93'...  but I'm definitely not a zealot.
> I love computers...  all kinds...  PCs, mainframes, PLCs, whatever...  but I don't
> have any delusions about any one machine or OS being better that all the rest.
> I prefer to evaluate the strengths and weakness' of different systems based on
> facts....  and the truth is that they all have just that...  strengths and weakness'.
> Of course, MS-Windows does have an extremely high number of the latter...  ;-)
>
> So... if you can produce any information that is a bit less subjective
>
> Roger
>
> Eric Windisch [SMTP:southpark@nni.com] wrote:
> My current box is a Pentium166mhz 66mhz-bus classic box with 128 megs of
> ram, running Linux 2.2.3.  It smokes my friend's PII 266 with 64 megs of
> ram, running Win98 (granted not NT, but still MS).  Well, as long as I don't
> run gnome-panel at least ;)  This box used to run Nt Server (as well as the
> workstation version),  I would have upgraded by now if I still ran
> Windows... who needs those 686+ processors anyway.. Actually, I'm waiting
> for some affordable G4 PPC Motherboards so I can build a custom PPC Linux
> box. ;)
>
> -Eric Windisch
>
> >
> > --- "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@njcc.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Roger C. Scudder Jr. wrote:
> > > > Here's an interesting study.  This study finds
> > > NT4.0 server
> > > > 2.5 times faster than Linux as a file server and
> > > 3.7 times faster
> > > > as a web server...
> > > >
> > >
> > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Your a little behind on the news.
> > > The study was paid for by Mickeysoft, the NT machine
> > > was optimized and
> > > Linux was not, etc, etc, etc...
> > >
> > > Even Mickeysoft has come out a said the test was
> > > messed up.
> > >
> > > This issue has bounced around on most of the lists
> > > and on Slashdot, check
> > > slashdot archives for the stories.
> > >
> > > I use NT on a P233 at work, and Linux on a P90 at
> > > home, trust me NT is not
> > > faster.  My P90 smokes the P233.
> > >
> > > Oracle just did some tests (I don't have the URL)
> > > and showed the exact
> > > reverse results.  That Linux was faster by far.
> > >
> >
>
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