If you want one example, read the Mindcraft benchmark. For "NetBench Enterprise Mix" benchmark, old version of RedHat (there was at least one version newer at the time of the test) outperformed latest NT (at the time of the test) at speeds under 127.7Mbit.
Unless I am really mistaken, this is beyond the speeds of FastEthernet (100 Mbit nominal, less in reality). For all practical reasons, unless you are a MAJOR web provider, chances are you will not have the net bandwidth for your server and clients to exceed 127.7Mbit. And besides, MAJOR web providers probably won't use NT anyway,just ask Microsoft why they are using BSD and Apache instead of NT on some of their sites.( See www.hotmail.com for one example )
As for uptime, I've run Linux and NT servers for several years at my last place of employment. I have NEVER had a production Linux box crash on me. The only time Linux boxes went down is when we needed to move it or swap out a UPS. NT servers on the other hand required a re-boot for one reason or another (a good deal of this is crashes and freeze ups)at about 30 day average interval. (some crashed almost daily)
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If you want one example, read the Mindcraft benchmark. For "NetBench Enterprise Mix" benchmark, old version of RedHat (there was at least one version newer at the time of the test) outperformed latest NT (at the time of the test) at speeds under 127.7Mbit.
Unless I am really mistaken, this is beyond the speeds of FastEthernet (100 Mbit nominal, less in reality). For all practical reasons, unless you are a MAJOR web provider, chances are you will not have the net bandwidth for your server and clients to exceed 127.7Mbit. And besides, MAJOR web providers probably won't use NT anyway,just ask Microsoft why they are using BSD and Apache instead of NT on some of their sites.( See www.hotmail.com for one example )
As for uptime, I've run Linux and NT servers for several years at my last place of employment. I have NEVER had a production Linux box crash on me. The only time Linux boxes went down is when we needed to move it or swap out a UPS. NT servers on the other hand required a re-boot for one reason or another (a good deal of this is crashes and freeze ups)at about 30 day average interval. (some crashed almost daily)