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2.4 vs 2.6 Linux Kernel Shootout
FyRE666 writes "Infoworld are currently running an interesting comparison of the 2.4 series kernel against the new 2.6 release on Xeon, Opteron and Itanium CPUs with some surprising benchmark results for common server-related tasks. Basically the new scheduler helps the 2.6 kernel to cream the old 2.4: Samba tests showing up to 73% speed increases, MySQL showing up to 29% and Apache serving dynamic content up to 47% faster!"
Yeah, and you also lock yourself into proprietary hardware and a cycle of costly software upgrades.
Sorry, my karma just ran over your dogma.
Of course, the 5.2 schedULEr was well thought out and designed before being coded and will probably last quite a while. The linux 2.6 one will probably need major patches for 2.8 and will need to be rewritten for v3.
Linux takes 0.5 hours,
Windows 3 hours less,
BUT we are obviously talking about a different day, as you most probably need 24-2.5=21.5 hours until you install everything including all the packages that come by default with a Linux full installation AND OF COURSE THE TERRABYTES OF SECURITY UPDATES TO PROTECT WINDBLOWS FROM EVERY FUCKING SECURITY HOLE since the begginning of time.
Oh, and something else. the "highly trained technical professional" also refers to a Linux 7. Cool! we are so outdated here at slashdot that we just got news of Linux 2.6 kernel and the highly trained technical professional is 4.4 versions ahead of us!