Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP

Posted by Zonk on from the why-all-the-fighting dept.

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."

5 of 442 comments (clear)

  1. yeah by justsomebody · · Score: -1, Troll

    now... where's the news?

    --
    Signature Pro version 1.13.2-3 release 83.5 beta3try7 after-breakfast edition
  2. Re:Singularity is truly an intriguing system. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "In twenty or so years we may look back at Microsoft Research with the same admiration we have for Bell Labs."

    Shut up you nimrod.

    MS Research has never actually produced anything of value. It's sole purpose is for Microsoft to collect smart people from throughout the industry and pay them to sit around and not create innovative stuff for other companies. Microsoft could care less if they pick their noses for eight hours a day or write new operating systems.

  3. Re:44 pages and the main question is still unanswe by kimvette · · Score: -1, Troll

    In order to obtain benchmarks over that long period of time, one must avoid reboots.

    I mean, you DO patch your Windows XP box, don't you? Most of the security patches require a reboot. No wonder Microsoft cannot get any data on long-term performance including stability and memory leaks - they're constantly rebooting so their test boxes don't get pwned by script kiddies! ;)

    --
    The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
  4. DragonFlyBSD even faster than FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What about DragonFlyBSD? They have a new lightweight kernel scheduler that's even faster than FreeBSD.

  5. Re:Too Telling by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: -1, Troll

    Umm..no. Linux processed and threads are adequate as long as there is no graphical component to their operation. Add a GUI, and Windows beats every Linux system hands down.

    The real reason for those numbers is simple: Singularity has no GUI, and so they (correctly) measure against systems without a GUI.