| 11 Versions Of WINE Benchmarked
2008-02-20 by Michael Larabel: "Last December we had published benchmarks of seven versions of Wine, which covered up through the WINE 0.9.50 release. We had used two versions of Futuremark's 3DMark suite for testing, and with that we had found the performance to be stable in some cases while in later WINE releases we had found some performance losses. With the WINE project on a consistent two-week release cycle, we are looking at the WINE 3D performance and this time going back with the past eleven releases. "This time around, we have gone back and benchmarked all versions of WINE from the latest 0.9.55 release to WINE 0.9.45..." |
|
|
| How the GNU/Linux Community Ranks Distros: Giants, Challengers, Petty Officers
2008-02-190 by Bruce Byfiel: "At first, ranking GNU/Linux distributions seems alien to the spirit of Free Software. After all, free software is all about choice. What should matter is that your distro suits you, not how others judge it. "Yet, in practice, community members judge distributions all the time. They don't use a single metric, and at times a distro's appeal is as simple as the fact that it is new or has released a new version. Yet, whenever community members choose a distribution to download or to build their own distribution upon, or to borrow a tool from, they are making a verdict on it..." |
|
|
| Beyond FreeBSD 7 Performance
2008-03-10 "Since the conclusion of the SMPng project, the focus of SMP development in FreeBSD has shifted from deploying locking infrastructure to careful profiling and optimization of kernel SMP strategies for increased performance on common workloads. FreeBSD 7.0 was the first release to benefit from this optimization work." The status of this work includes MySQL workload benchmarks and memory allocator performance in the new FreeBSD 8 branch. Also, here is a recent presentation showing FreeBSD compared to several other operating systems like NetBSD, DrangonFly, Solaris, and Linux. |
|
|
| Measuring TCO: Wintel vs Lintel
2008-03-12 by Paul Murphy: "The most BASIC, and traditional, Wintel vs Lintel TCO comparison argued that since the hardware is the same, everything comes down to the cost of the OS and applications licenses--all of which are free for Lintel and expensive for Wintel.. "This drew many different responses, but the two main trends I saw among independent experts working for Microsoft or IBM on this was to base headlined results either on assuming away the problem by comparing only non Lintel alternatives or on precise foreground calculations performed on numbers obtained by guessing high on one side and low on the other.. |
|
|
| Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference?
007-08-24 by Dru Lavigne: "Ubuntu is known as Linux for Human Beings, because it's driven by the philosophy that 'software should be available free of charge, software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit' (Ubuntu Documentation).
"PC-BSD, on the other hand, 'has been designed with the casual computer user in mind. Installing the system is simply a matter of a few clicks and a few minutes for the installation process to finish. Hardware such as video, sound, network, and other devices will be auto-detected and available at the first system startup. Home users will immediately feel comfortable with PC-BSD's desktop interface, with KDE 3.5 running under the hood. Software installation has also been designed to be as painless as possible, simply double-click and software will be installed...' |
|
|
Bookmarks 
