Re: [TCLUG:5285] NTS4 vs. Linux study from Mindcraft.

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

Yeah, 'cuz we ALL know that CS majors are the bottom line when it comes to
computers... :-)

Check out the following "more accurate" NT/Samba comparison.  It's not
often when the free product that was reverse-engineered to be compatable
with the real thing performs better:
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,396321,00.html

Peter Lukas
U of M CS Dropout
Non-Y2K Compliant

PS.  All you CS majors out there, no offence.

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Ben Kochie wrote:

> that's actualy a really interesting idea.. a university group of CS majors
> to do benchmarking, and check for cheating on either side
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Brady Hegberg wrote:
> 
> > One interesting thing I saw was that Mindcraft has found that NT is also 
> > faster than Novell and Sun servers.  I find it VERY difficult to believe 
> > that NT is faster than Netware just because Netware has so little 
> > overhead.  I haven't seen the Sun comparison but I would assume that's 
> > pretty bogus too.  Novell's website stops just short of calling the 
> > Mindcraft people idiots.
> > 
> > I think a study like this would be better done with 2 identical machines 
> > and 3 teams.  A Linux team, an NT team and a client team.  The first two 
> > teams would setup their machines and tweak them appropriately.  Then the 
> > client team (who would be as objective as possible) would beat on them and 
> > report the results.
> > 
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