[plug] Benchmarks: "Linux Defeats Microsoft Windows in Top 5"

[Leon Brooks]

    http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/linwin.html

    Here is what we wanted to test against: 

    Stability (days) - length of days before required reboot or
    human intervention

    Performance (seconds) - speed of the OS load time from moment
    of system turn on to ability to start an application

    Efficiency (seconds) - speed of commonly used applications, in
    this case an empty spreadsheet and new word processing file

    Price ($s) - how much it cost to upgrade or purchase the
    particular OS in use

    Pain (minutes) - how much effort in time it took to configure
    the system the first time

Their graph was drawn by a looney who doesn't understand graphs, but 
it's an enjoyable page anyway. (-:

Cheers; Leon