Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP

Mortimer.CA writes "In a weblog entry, Paul Murphy mentions a Microsoft report (40 page PDF) that in many instances FreeBSD 5.3 and Linux perform better than Windows XP SP2. The report is about MS' Singularity kernel (which does perform better than the OSS kernels by many of the metrics they use), and some future directions in OS design (as well as examination of the way things have been done in the past)." From the post: "What's noteworthy about it is that Microsoft compared Singularity to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP - and almost every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants. For example, they show the number of CPU cycles needed to "create and start a process" as 1,032,000 for FreeBSD, 719,000 for Linux, and 5,376,000 for Windows/XP."

Comments

Sure, linux, great..

[InsideTheAsylum]

I mean, yeah, I'm up for IP socialism, but when games come to Linux is when I come to linux. Simple as that! It's windows (frowny face minus :(- ) for me for now.

Re:Singularity is truly an intriguing system.

[Master of Transhuman]

Bwahahahahahah!!!

Mod Parent +5, Funny!

Re:Singularity is truly an intriguing system.

[Master of Transhuman]

Show me a FUCKING PRODUCT I can respect, and I'll respect their engineers!

You think their engineers are brilliant, but it's only their marketing managers that prevent all thet "brilliance" from showing up in a Microsoft product?

Get a clue.

Microsoft people are Geek Morons(tm) hired for their ability to turn out crap fast to make Bill money.

Period.

Myhrvold is off playing with his Gulfstream - the last smart guy they had up there.