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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:30097 comp.sys.intel:25743 comp.os.misc:3533 comp.unix.bsd:15660 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7821 comp.unix.sys5.r4:8866 comp.unix.misc:15161 comp.os.linux.development:21533 comp.os.linux.misc:32064 comp.os.linux.misc:32065 comp.os.386bsd.development:2852 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4486 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: 19 Dec 1994 22:47:36 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 52 Message-ID: <3d52i8$am5@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <MICHAELV.94Dec19115633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3d4o1h$7bh@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3d4ucp$sbn@hearst.cac.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <3d4ucp$sbn@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, Kenneth J. Hoover <ken@psuedvax.ed.psu.edu> wrote: >In article <3d4o1h$7bh@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) >writes: >>Windows NT is a joke! It is fine for simple folk who want to play >>solitaire, type their letters is MS Word, and run whatever the latest >>trendy MS applications happen to be, > > ...or who want a lightning-fast file-and-print-server OS that's not riddled >with security holes for bored CS students to hack in their spare time... Oh, this is a scream! lightning fast? There is a saying here, "nothing slows down a computer like Windoze NT" and there is a reason for that... 1. When you say "lightning fast", are you really talking about fast hardware, like a pentium 90 with 32 MB RAM? 2. Benchmarks like the dhrystone test show Windoze NT running at roughly 1/3 the speed of UNIX on identical hardware 3. We have a number of identical dual-boot pentiums with Windows NT 3.5 "advanced server" and Linux - the comparison is hard to avoid; under linux I can rlogin, start a kernel recompile in the background, study the system logs, then rlogin into another machine and do something else, and come back to the kernel recompile when I get around to it. - booting NT renders this same workstation deaf, dumb, and blind... none of the above is possible under NT "advanced server". 4. We have DEC Alphas that were delivered with Windows NT - after an evaluation period, NT was scrubbed in favor of OSF/UNIX, which runs circles around it... 5. Linux + samba will perform the same lanman server duties as NT, except that linux can also be simultaneously doing the following: 1. Run nfs server and/or nfs client 2. Run a pcnfs server supporting multiple PCNFS logins 3. Support multiple UNIX user rlogins - totally impossible under NT 4. Run simultaneous X servers and/or clients - totally impossible under NT And also, there are 2 other advantages to linux: 1. Linux is cost effective 2. The Source code and docs are included I just typed these few examples off the top of my head, but a much larger and more comprehensive list is certainly possible! -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!