On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Scott Sharkey wrote: > The mindcraft "study" was bought and paid for by Microsoft, and has > been widely shown to be fraudulent and invalid. MANY, many articles > have been written about the multitude of ways in which they skewed > the results to favor MS. In addition, there were some valid criticisms > of Linux in the report, ALL of which have been fixed since that time > with current releases of Linux. In short, linux far surpasses NT > in file server performance given equal circumstances.
There was a discussion about this last night at my user group meeting (http://www.blu.org). Today, there is only one valid reason for not using a Linux box with Samba to replace NT shares or Netware. That reason is because on occasion, Microsoft tweaks how sharing works with Windows, and it can take a while for someone to reverse engineer it and get Samba working with it. So if you're in a large office with lots of computers and lots of versions of Windows, and you have to have the latest and (relatively) greatest version of Windows, you might end up in a situation where a new release of Windows won't be immediately compatible with Samba. By the way, Mindcraft was also the company that said Apache was a piece of sh*t compared to IIS. Ayup. It takes a mighty skilled Windows sysadmin to keep an IIS server running unattended for a few weeks under real loads. Mindcraft is a mouthpiece for M$FT. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box DK KD crashed... DDDD ...,Oh wait, he already does. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
