Thanks to Dan Kegel
for this link.
“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…”