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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: $Mogul who wrote (294)	8/11/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: S.C. Barnard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

No no- don't get me as a basher!!That too. I'm in. I'm just also a fan of the OS. Think of it- a free os, that has been tested and doesn't crash when for weeks running consistantly this from RB:(not me) A lot of people are missing the performance gain aspect. What a lot of people are not realizing is that Linux can really kick butt in performance applications that require heavy math calculations. Windows is slow and a resource hog, not to mention crash happy. I have done some research and seems that Linux running on a 386 can out perform Win95, 98 & NT on a Pentium system by almost 200% when heavy processing is involved. The best example I can give is the SETI At Home screen saver program that breaks down and analizes radio telescope data for the SETI project. If you want to see the processing time comparisons then just go to setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu It's all the final convincing I needed. Well not exactly. I have Redhat Linux 5.2 running on an Intel 486Dx2 with 24m of ram and WIN95 on an Intel Pentium 233Mhz with 128m of ram. Both systems are running the SETI at Home program. The 486 running Linux manages to complete just better than 3 work units to every one on the Windows setup.