From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 14 12:27: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493CB14DE6 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id PAA13432; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:24:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (V4.2) id xma010530; Wed, 14 Apr 99 15:21:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:21:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth Subject: Benchmarks In-reply-to: To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Please -- if you choose to reply to this, just post to -advocacy. Take my name off it; I'll see it when it hits the list. Thanks! SB ] Just something that was posted to #freebsd yesterday. I think it's pretty interesting for a couple reasons I'll mention below: http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html Summary: Windows NT outperforms Linux Red Hat in ease-of-install, web benchmarks, and file server benchmarks (using samba). What's hidden in here is that Microsoft sponsored this test (paid Mindcraft to do it, I guess). Something I found interesting. There was a post a while back that suggested that Microsoft would not allow benchmarks of its own products to be posted by 3rd parties. Did I misread this? If not, it seems mighty unfair of them to post benchmarks only when it's in their interest to do so. I wonder how FreeBSD would stack up in these tests. Enjoy... SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message