AMD Cleaning Intel's Clocks 6731

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, mlw wrote on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:44:00 -0500

99.999% is an old Microsoft ad campaign. Of course, it's probably referring to something entirely different (which translates to a downtime of about 5 minutes per year), not the number of successfully sent viruses. ;-)

Depends on what one is doing. Linux firewall, Windows clients in the back-network, carefully controlled, would work to some extent.

Personally, I'd just as soon use Linux for almost everything. :-) But that's just me.

True, but steering back this towards aesthetics and speed, one has to ask the obvious question as to why everyone needs a search doggy, surfer dude, wizard, dancing secretary, or motorized paper clip in order to find something (fortunately, one can tell said doggy to walk away), and as for speed, well, my dualboot here (Dell GX280 Optiplex 1 GB RAM) works nicely under Linux but under Windows XP tends to wallow like a stuck pig as it pages itself to rest.

Granted, that's my opinion only. No doubt were I to leave Windows XP up for more than a few minutes it might actually cache some pages. But I doubt it would help all that much.

I wonder about that. It may depend on whether one's talking about 2D or 3D operations -- and probably depends heavily on the quality of the graphics driver, and some optimization of the code in various programs such as Quake. (Linux variants can't handcraft buttembly without some work, for example. Windows has a clear advantage here, because the developer knows it's going to be an x86 platform. Of course, the flip side is that Linux runs on more machine types, and so can OpenGL programs.)

Especially since it's far from clear that one needs such mbuttive amounts of performance. After all, if one draws 10 billion lines on a screen, one's probably not going to see an awful lot beyond a jumble of lines.

The program has to decide which lines are important. :-)

Well, the doggy and paper clip are *real* easy to point at. ;-)

Well, yes and no. The main problem becomes how to build it properly, which can be an issue for very old source. Still, it's an improvement over not having any source at all.

That's not Linux, though Macs aren't too bad in the security department.

Microsoft used to be best in the biz -- way back in the early 1990's, if not the late 1980's. I for one don't know what happened, and even then there were probably a few asking questions regarding the future.

Maybe they got spoiled by success.

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