Aside from the fact that we haven't actually run any metrics on it this reminds me of when someone benchmarked FreeBSD against Linux for mail handling. The FreeBSD guys were really upset about it, they sent all kinds of tweaks and patches to make it "fair". In the end the people who ran the tests reported, (not an exact quote) "FreeBSD tweaked and tuned as well as possible runs almost as fast as Linux with no tweaks whatsoever."
I'm not bashing FreeBSD either. If someone ever ported APT to FreeBSD I'd jump ship in a heartbeat. No wait, FreeBSD needs some better mirrors too. Most are painfully slow, especially after a release.
I need to try gentoo. :)
David Smith wrote:
On second thought, maybe this would be unfair to the Windows team. They'd have to do a fund-raiser during the competition just to afford the licensing necessary to install the software.
Wow, time for me to shut up. I've already taken this thread to the pit as is...
--Dave
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Seriously though if the windows side had RAID and GIG ethernet on the RIS server I'll bet it would still be a close match. The real competition is in how long it takes to configure the services afterward.
Which is where Linux would take the lead. Two words: "tab completion".
Not to burst your bubble, but Windows has had tab completion since 2K, and it's on by default in XP.
The new bash completion stuff is really cool though. It can do stuff like CVS module completion and filter possible completions by the type of file the command you're using is expecting. If I type unzip and then hit tab twice it can list only files that have a .zip extension for example.
http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml#completion
In theory the commandline interface should be faster for an expert. Mice can really slow you down.
If you think that mice slow /you/ down try ratpoison: http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/
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