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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FYI.....</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The Truth is Out There and Bill Gates can not hid it with more of is statistical companies....</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * COMPARISON BETWEEN NT AND LINUX PERFORMANCE</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In a recent MindCraft study, the company claimed NT was running faster</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">than Linux on a 4-way SMP Dell Box. This benchmark was sponsored by </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Microsoft. Many Linux system administrators protested and said that </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Linux was not well tuned. Thank you all who pointed me to the rebuttals </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">that were written by people that had time to look into the details a </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">little more than I did. The whole thing created quite a stir again in </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the ongoing controversy. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">But one participant in the discussion on the Sunbelt NTSYSADMIN list</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">put it quite succinctly. I'm taking a short extract from his wise</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">words.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"Friends, Enough. Another OS is another tool. You don't do all your</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">programming in one language, you don't put all your money in one bank, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">you don't watch just one TV show - why think that one-OS-fits-all? </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">None of them do. I install, use, and support NT, Solaris, Linux, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">IRIX and MacOS in my work environment. Cut the jabber - learn from </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">others how to pick and choose the "best" OS for the application at </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">hand." Thanks DL Hilton!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Here are some hotlinks. First the MindCraft results, then the others:</FONT>
<BR><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html</A></FONT></U>
<BR><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C2242246%2C00.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C2242246%2C00.html</A></FONT></U>
<BR><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft.phtml" TARGET="_blank">http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft.phtml</A></FONT></U>
<BR><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/14/0042212" TARGET="_blank">http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/14/0042212</A></FONT></U>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">An extract from the Sunbelt NTools E-Newsletter 24/4/98</FONT>
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