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WSJ Says Linux Lags

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

TroyD sent us a link to a WSJ Article on Linux that Says Linux is Good, but that it lags behind its rivals. Troy also sent a choice quote from the article: "...Linux currently lacks some of the features demanded by corporations. [...] Among them are the ability to run simultaneously on many processors in a single computer and to keep a log of what the computer has done." Cool. I can save a lot of diskspace: rm -rf /var/log.

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  1. Look at the underlying D.H. Brown study by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    The underlying study is actually a very responsible view of how Linux stacks up against the highest-end commercial OSs. It says that the main shortcomings of Linux are that it lacks proven SMP ability (we're talking 6 or 8 processors here), file system journaling (which is what the clueless WSJ meant when it talked about "keeping a log of what the system has done"), and very-large file support (like, on the TB scale). The big problem with SMP, apparently, is that it takes years of working hand-in-glove with the hardware mfgr to get a properly tuned SMP system. Probably correct.

    While the study ranked NT at about the same level as Linux, it expressly did not consider stability. The study said that stability evidence was almost entirely anecdotal, and there were no real MTBF studies to review.