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Linux vs Windows 7
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| And this is where Linux can make a big difference. There's nothing in
Windows
| 7 that Linux can't do, and in most cases, do it better. Our machines
are
| quicker and more efficient. Our desktops are more innovative and less
static.
| Our apps are more powerful, cheaper and less partisan, and Linux
security has
| never been better. But best of all, we have complete control over the
future
| of Linux, and it's success or failure at the hands of Windows 7 is in
our
| hands.
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http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-vs-windows-7
From the article...
<quote>
But when we compared the 64-bit version of Windows 7 against its
equivalent Ubuntu release, Linux was faster on most of the tests we ran,
including boot time, shutdown time and most of the filesystem tests. The
only test where Windows 7 was significantly faster than everything else
was the Richards benchmark of overall system performance.
</quote>
Sounds about right. Linux is faster in "boot time" and "shutdown time" and
Windows 7 was "significantly faster" in overall system performance.
"But best of all, we have complete control over the future of Linux, and
it's success or failure at the hands of Windows 7 is in our hands."
That is a sort of motherhood statement that was probably somewhat
gratuitously added to the article to bring it to a conclusions, but it begs
the question as to how many of the TuxRadar readers and staff are actually
developing code to keep Linux able to appear to be in some sort of race with
Windows. It gets harder and harder to keep up with commercial development,
I think, and that will eventually run the amateurs out of that race.
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