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The Linux-Windows 2005 TCO Comparison Survey, found that network administrators can restore a Windows server 30 percent faster than a Linux server.
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That is a huge advantage to Windows! Windows servers routinely crash. A Linux server simply runs. One imagines Linux Sysops would need special training to keep rested, tanned, and ready to restore their system every couple or three years.
Uncle Al does some severe number crunching. Given the same C++ source code, Linux runs 40% faster than Windows in the same hardware. AMD runs 40% faster than Intel with the same executable. A run that required just under seven CPU-days in a Xeon did it in under five days in an Opteron-244.
Uncle Al's new box is an AMD 64 Athlon 55-FX with 2 GB of Corsair Xtreme low latency RAM and other goodies from
http://www.abscomputers.com/
If I want 64-bit computing I can boot from a (iLnux) Knoppix64 LIVE! CD. AMD is 32-bit, 64-bit, and x86 compatible all at once. Run flat out 99% for hours the CPU sits at 50 C. Since the case has a window over the CPU fan, I bought a 4" 120 V 100 cfm muffin fan to put over it if I see 51 C. Keep it cool, let it hum.
Windows/Intel? Only as a last resort.
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Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.htm
