Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Jan 2006 18:50 UTC
The study described in the following article was done by Mirosoft, so run to the kitchen and get some grains of salt. "Microsoft's Linux and open-source lab on the Redmond campus has been running some interesting tests of late, one of which was looking at how well the latest Windows client software runs on legacy hardware in comparison to its Linux competitors. The tests, which found that Windows performed as well as Linux on legacy hardware when installed and run out-of-the-box, were done in part to give Microsoft the data it needed to effectively "put to rest the myth that Linux can run on anything." Do with the results as you please, but the topic is interesting nonetheless. What are your experiences?
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2005-11-12
This is a difficult test to measure. What window manager would they select? What desktop environment? Which video drivers? Using a lightweight DE like XFCE4 or blackbox combined with the latest linux kernel will run applications well on low memory or older CPU's. I have both windows XP and Fedora core 4 installed on the same box and I avoid booting into windows mode since applications like browser, CD burning sofware will bog down the system because of the memory requrements for Windows XP. The memory requirements for Vista will be even greater meaning soon I will get even more performance from my linux boot.