"In March 1999, Microsoft commissioned Mindcraft to carry out a comparison
between NT and Linux showing that NT was 2 to 3 times faster than Linux.
This provoked responses from Apacheweek.org, Eric Lee Green, Jeremy
Allison, and Linux Weekly News, among others.
"The responses generally claimed that Mindcraft had not configured Linux
properly, and gave specific examples. Both Mindcraft and the Linux
community agree that good tuning information for Linux is hard to find."
"Mindcraft probably did tune NT well and Linux poorly -- but rather than
assume this fully accounts for Linux's poor showing, let's look for other
things that could have contributed. I'm going to focus on the web tests..."
