:PC Week: PC Week Labs' tests show what path Linux must take
PC Week: PC Week Labs' tests show what path Linux must take Jun 25, 1999, 15 :41 UTC (81 Talkback[s]) (10630 reads) (Other stories by Henry Baltazar and P)
"In a first-of-its-kind open benchmark comparing the performance of
Linux and Windows NT, PC Week Labs not only found that NT remains
substantially faster but also isolated Linux's shortcomings and gained
insight into where future development of the open-source operating system
should be headed.
"After a tortuous five days of tests, audited by the best and the
brightest from Mindcraft, Microsoft and Red Hat Software Inc., and despite
significant tuning improvements made on the Linux side, Windows NT 4.0
still beat Linux using the Apache Web server and Samba in every performance
category, although the margin of victory was smaller than in Mindcraft's
tests.
"But far more interesting is that, in all the areas in which the Linux
community cried foul, its assumptions were wrong. Where kernel problems
were found, fixes are already under way."
