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Good evening, everyone...
On Friday 07 February 2003 09:47 pm, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Sat Feb 08, 2003 at 12:10:59AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > In my experience you've got to try pretty damn hard to break Mandrake
> > linux. For getting work done there's just no comparison between windows
> > and Linux. the two of them don't even belong in the same breath let alone
> > in the same ball park. and I'm not bashing windows just for the sake of
> > it. My workstation at work dual boots win2K and Mandrake Linux. While I
> > hacking out code for something at work I'm running Mandrake. My boss runs
> > win98...he has to reboot sometimes 3-4 times...I just keep working. If I
> > wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't have to
> > boot back into windows at all.
I was going to simply let this thread slide on by my workstation and keep my
mouth shut, as it's Friday, and I am exhausted after a 60+ hour week. Then I
remembered my little "chart", and after finding it in the archive directory,
and reviewing the results of nearly two years of comparitive studies and
constant testing, particularly with regard to Windows XP versus Mandrake 9.0,
I simply *had* to say something.
Between a huge volume of e-mail, plus constant involvement in various other
writing projects, programming in Perl and Delphi and various other forms of
database development, I would say I probably am as hard on a workstation as
anyone else. For a fortunately brief period of time each year, I have
performed quality analyses on two other workstations powered by Microsoft
products and my own workstation running Mandrake. There is *not* a year but
what the Mandrake box has handily won, but this year neither of the XP boxes
stood a chance when it came to the race for efficiency.
Here is a tiny sample:
Current Uptime: Windows 2 days 6 hours Mandrake 14 months 9 days
Mean average: Windows 2+ days Mandrake 13 months+
Last forced reboot Windows 2 days Mandrake NEVER
Time consumed in last patch/upgrade:
Windows 3.2 hours Mandrake .75 hours (45 mins)
Viruses/worms Windows (2) Mandrake 0
Catastrophic faults Windows 9 Mandrake 0
(failures which required user intervention and loss of use)
Here's an anomaly that stands out:
Most productive version of each brand:
Windows 98
Mandrake 8.2 and up
I keep the Windows machines running only because the corporate databases are
written entirely in FoxBase, but we are slowly beginning to phase that out in
favor of Kylix, which means within the next year database development will be
moved entirely to Mandrake workstations.
To be politically-correct, I am not here to bash Windows. However, given the
number of times the Windows boxes have been patched and upgraded, I still
cannot seem to do better than 2 or 3 days uptime before one or both of them
crash or require a reboot.
Dave
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Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project
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An automatic & random thought For the Minute:
"You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!"
- -- Bloom County
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