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LWN: A look at the Mindcraft report

“Since their results differ so strongly from those of other,
similar studies, it is normal to want to understand what was
different…”

“Mindcraft is a company which specializes in testing and
benchmarking systems. Their testing is done for paying
clients…”

“We may never know what the stated “goals” of this test were,
but the client was Microsoft. Microsoft also paid for some similar
studies…”

“A number of problems have been found in the way the Linux
server was configured in this test…”

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