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  1. X15 rocks! by Invisible+Agent · · Score: 1 · on The Speed Demon That Is Tux 2.0

    Hear hear. I've always thought that TUX was a terrible idea that exists only for the sake of creating artificially inflated benchmark scores.

    I notice that several posters comment that "TUX runs dynamic content", etc., etc. Yeah, it runs arbitrary dynamic content in my kernel where it will take down my whole system! No thank you. Oh, and by "dynamic content", they mean my own binaries; forget about all of those nice Apache modules you were planning on using.

    And even the most basic HOWTO on setting up httpd starts with "make the daemon run as nobody". But TUX does away with that: run not only your http process but all dynamic applications as root! Wow this is dumb.

    On the other hand, X15 has an intelligent model (Apache's model, in fact), and leverages the most popular web server ever, namely Apache. And in fact, it does appear to greatly improve my performance.

    If you think you need to make your regular Apache install run faster, avoid TUX and try X15.

    Invisible Agent

  2. Benchmarks that MATTER... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5 · on The Speed Demon That Is Tux 2.0

    What I really want to know is how well it compares to X-15 (free reg. required), which trounced the original TUX, *despite* running in user mode. X-15 is also open source, and from the guys who make the ChromeLinux web server that was mentioned in the Apache section a while back.

    Tux beats apache. Big deal. Apache is slow. Everyone knows that. I want to see Tux take on the current Linux web-server champ.

  3. DirectX creators leave MS to found Linux company by cpeterso · · Score: 1 · on Xbox, GameCube Dates Set For Early November


    Eric Engstrom and Chris Phillips, the "inventors" of DirectX, have left Microsoft to start a Linux company called Chromium. Their first product is ChromeLinux/WebServer, a high-performance fork of the Apache web server. One of their developers has recently surfaced on the linux-kernel list with a web server called X15, which matches Tux's kernel-space performance in user-space!

  4. DirectX creators leave MS to found Linux company by cpeterso · · Score: 1 · on Xbox, GameCube Dates Set For Early November


    Eric Engstrom and Chris Phillips, the "inventors" of DirectX, have left Microsoft to start a Linux company called Chromium. Their first product is ChromeLinux/WebServer, a high-performance fork of the Apache web server. One of their developers has recently surfaced on the linux-kernel list with a web server called X15, which matches Tux's kernel-space performance in user-space!

  5. All this talk about Tux... by Sylvestre · · Score: 2 · on Red Hat Linux 7.1 Release Announcement

    Chromium (where I used to work) sells a user space Apache that's as fast as Tux. Too bad I don't work there any more.