[SAGE] Re: Looking for a detailed comparison, Linux vs. NT

[AEleen Frisch <gaussian.com!aefrisch@gaussian.com>]

Here is what I have in easy reach. I haven't checked the URLs to see if 
they're still working or not. Note that articles dealing with NT 4 are 
still ~100% applicable. Hope this helps.

* These links are starting points for the lively debate between people 
who are smart and actually know a lot (e.g., Mark Russinovich for 
Windows,  some of the kernel developers for Linux). There is some real 
data to be gleaned from this, but there's a lot of religious sniping and 
banter to wade through to find it. The exchanges are also unfortunately 
marred by the fact that the two sides were using significantly different 
vocabularies and at times used the same terms to mean different things. 
Neither side seemed to really understand the internals of both OS's, and 
they also clearly had very different experiences in terms of computing 
environments and server deployment expectations. Nevertheless, they 
should prove useful to any serious comparison:

www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4500
www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4502
www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=5048
www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-04-30-015-05-PS

More Mundane offerings follow:

References promoting Windows NT over Linux:

* Microsoft, "5 Myths About Linux";
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp
Response: lwn.net/1999/features/MSResponse.phtml

* Clif Graves, "Five Linux Myths";
swtinker.tripod.com/Linux/Linux_myths.htm

References promoting Linux over Windows NT:

* Cameron Laird, "Linux versus NT: Are you getting the most from your OS?";
www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-08-1998/swol-08-linuxvnt.html

* John Kirch, "Microsoft Windows NT Server vs UNIX";
www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch

* Aron Hsiao, "Six Lies About Linux";
linux.about.com/compute/os/linux/library/weekly/aa120798.htm