The March 22 issue of Smart Reseller (www.smartreseller.com) compared NT and Linux running Samba and it had Linux/Samba way ahead. So I was very surprized to see the test by Mindcraft.
Try the following: www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/infopack/0,5483,387506,00.html There are two links on that page -- one for Samba, one for Apache. In both articles, NT fails in the 10 to 12 user area. Good luck! -- Gregory Wood Farsight Computer 1219 W University Blvd Odessa TX 79764 Voice: 1-915-335-0879 Member: CT Pioneers Luis Villa wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of > > Directors, of course): > > > > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html > > > > Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as > > a File Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server. > > > > I'm sure I could dig up opposing reviews. Anyone know of any? > > > > Peter- > > 1) The white-paper was commissioned by MS. It's right there in the > paper. That's the most telling fact in the whole paper. > > 2) http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft.phtml has a list of > critiques of the proposal, including the suggestion that they deliberately > used a kernel (2.2.2) with known networking problems. They also have a > list of links with research you can use to counter theirs, from several > respected and independent news sources. > > 3) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/14/0042212 is /.'s thread on > this- lots of interesting observations and criticisms. Make sure you set > "Highest Scores First"- otherwise you will have to search forever to find > the pertinent ones. > > Good luck- I'd strongly suggest sending out at least the lwn.net link to > counter the FUD. > -Luis > > ####################################################################### > > "They call the faithful to their knees > to hear the softly spoken magic spell:" > > "There's no place like home... > There's no place like home... > There's no place like home." > > -Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon > -Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz > > ####################################################################### > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Gregory Wood Farsight Computer 1219 W University Blvd Odessa TX 79764 Voice: 1-915-335-0879 Member: CT Pioneers
