Linked by Joshua Boyles on Wed 19th May 2004 20:08 UTC
By the time Longhorn comes out I'm sure everyone will be sick of the subject "windows vs linux." Will longhorn finally destroy that pesky linux and mark another decade of Microsoft's monopoly, or will the underdog come out with a stunning upset and send a multi billion dollar company to it's grave?
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Linux will always require less hardware and the simple explanation is that unix/linux operating systems are designed in modules:
you want a simple web server:
All you need is a slim kernel (new or old) and apache (new or old) this will run easily on a 32 meg P100
Win 2003 needs at leas a 500 mhz P3 with 256 megs of ram to accomplish this.
But the point of looking at minimum requirenments is to see same performance on a minimum spec.
Now upgrade the server to the a nice server: say a Quad Opteron 2.2Gh with 64 gig or ram.
Now you will see that the the linux on the same setup will be able to hanndle twice as many reqests as Win2003
This is simply because you don't need a fancy GUI for a web server, Media player, IE, outlook express, activeX, directX, etc etc etc...