[plug] New from the NT Camp (NT vs Linix)

Gavin Tweedie tweedie at nw.com.au
Thu Apr 15 16:44:13 WST 1999


> About Mindcraft
> 
> Mindcraft is a service-oriented, independent test lab. The company was
> founded in 1985 to provide high quality services and products to vendors
> and end users who want to test software, system, and network products.
> Mindcraft is committed to work to promote standards in our industry.
> Mindcraft is the only test lab to be a member of the Standard Performance
> Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).

Read the fine print, the tests were sponsored by Microsoft Corp. To me
that automatically tells me that this is not to be trusted. One should
also note that many many other benchmarks have been done in the past, with
Linux winning in every single one that I have read.

My $0.02


Gavin




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