posted by Rahul on Thu 20th Nov 2008 03:22 UTC
Royal Pingdom blog has posted with a comparison of home page load times and uptimes and concludes that various Linux distributions and Apple, both beat Microsoft's record.
- 13/16 Linux distributions (and Apple) had less downtime than Microsoft's homepage.
- 5/16 Linux distributions had less downtime than Apple's homepage.
- Four homepages had NO downtime: Red Hat, Mepis, Knoppix and Fedora.
- Five homepages had more than an hour of downtime: Gentoo, Mandriva, Mint, Arch and Microsoft.
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