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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.intellistar.net!usenet@intellistar.net From: shaworth@intellistar.net (Stephen Haworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 17:18:09 GMT Organization: IntelliSTAR/PFE Lines: 45 Message-ID: <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.105.64.114 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26865 comp.unix.solaris:81865 comp.os.linux.misc:127841 This site you refer to does the comparison on an Intel PC platform. Let's see what kind of results we would get if we ran "efficiency" tests on a machine which was actually designed to run Unix. For the casual Unix user, Linux on a PC would probably be fine. For a UNIX professional, you can't beat Solaris on an Ultra-Sparc. There are MANY other considerations other than some random speed tests run on a PC. How about security, scalability, and robustness of the OS?? I guess the real question is are you going to be using this Unix box in your home, or are you going to be conducting real business on this as a server. Steve Haworth, Solaris User ========================================================= On 6 Sep 1996 05:05:02 -0700, jstern@primenet.com (Josh Stern) wrote: >Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: > >>All of a sudden I have an urge to install, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD on >>one machine, different partitions ofcourse and run some benchmarks to >>compare the efficiency of these operating systems and then declare one >>of these to be the most efficient Unix OS of the 3. >> >>I know some of these may have more features than the other, but I am >>mainly wanting to check kernel efficiency. Has anyone already done this ? > >You can find something this done with the Byte Unix benchmarks >on the Net Express web page: http://www.tdl.com/~netex >(under the topic motherboards). > > >- Josh > > > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >jstern >jstern@primenet.com >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------