Linux on the Desktop vs. Windows XP
I find this article to be very intersting. Prior to reading it I thought that a Linux distribution running OpenOffice.org would be a good way to revitalize old PCs. But according this article I would actually be better off with Windows XP and Office 2003!I'm curious to how this would also apply to a Linux Terminal Server environment like what I wrote about in my article Running Linux Terminal Server Project? If it runs this slow on a simple workstation how would it affect performance on a server running multiple instances of OpenOffice.org with multiple users logged in at the same time...
Read it for yourself and make your own choice...
Desktop Linux versus Windows XP shootout by ZDNet's George OuPrior posts about Linux on the Desktop:
As we can see from these OS boot time and Applicatitime results, the Microsoft handily beat the Open Source platform. What's more surprising is that Windows XP and Office 2003 running in 96 MBs of RAM even managed to beat OpenSUSE and OpenOffice.org 2 running in 352 MBs of RAM!
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