PC Magazine: Choosing Linux (& benchmarks)

[Warren Togami]

http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D25068%2526a%253D16526,00.asp
PC Magazine: Choosing Linux

PC Magazine wrote a very technically accurate review and comparison of Red
Hat Professional Server 7.1, SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional, Mandrake Linux
ProSuite Edition 8.0, Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1, Turbolinux Server 6.5,
and Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (Potato).  It is nice to see that somebody at PC
Mag knows Linux very well.  The review criteria was based mainly on server
capability, configurability, and enterprise support.

Red Hat Professional Server 7.1 gets their Editor's Choice award, followed
closely by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional.

The later pages of this article are also very nice.  They have a short
description of Linux for current Windows users, then a few paragraphs about
some new big users of Linux across the country.  Stuff like the 8,000 Red
Hat Linux servers used by Google, Linux powered TiVO, Oil company
supercomputers, and Toyota's 1,200 dealerships connected with Linux.

The second to last page compares their benchmarks of Windows 2000 and Linux
in serving Windows networking clients.  They run the Netbench 7.02 benchmark
in comparing the two server platforms.  With both servers untuned, Linux won
in all tests.  They even crippled one performance feature of Linux, and
Linux still barely edged out Windows 2000 on the same hardware.  Check out
the two performance graphs.