OS X versus Vista, RAM division
As I noted earlier this week, I’ve begun using a MacBook (the basic white model) and keeping a log of my experiences.
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26.10.2008 Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X
There has been a consistent amount of “ink” spilled over comparing Windows, Linux and Mac OS X this month. The reports have generated some controversy, because they point out that Windows delivers a more secure platform than Linux and Mac OS X.
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30.3.2007 Microsoft: Windows Vista Safer than OS X, Linux
Microsoft security strategy director Jeff Jones this week published a report comparing the security vulnerability profile for various high-profile operating systems in the 90 days of their existence.
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26.3.2007 Want Security? Drop Windows and Move to Linux, or Mac OS X
There is no silver bullet solution for security, and no foolproof client operating system. But the fact of the matter is that while neither Linux, nor Mac OS X and not even Windows Vista are panacea solutions for protecting users, they are all less attacked than Windows XP and older versions of the Microsoft platform.
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10.9.2007 Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X vs. Linux - for the Last Time in 2007
At the end of 2007 one thing is clear... Windows Vista is far from the Wow revelation that Microsoft aimed for with the late January worldwide consumer launch.
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1.1.2008 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 vs. Mac OS X and Linux
Despite constantly downplaying the relevance of Linux and Mac OS X, because of a variety of reasons, from high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to security risks and inferior shipment volumes, Microsoft is well aware of the real threat to Windows represented by the open source platform and Apple's operating system.
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1.8.2008 Windows 7 vs. Linux, Microsoft Trashes Open Source OS
The advent of the next iteration of the Windows client represents yet another opportunity for operating system measuring contest, and the Redmond-based company is not the one to back down from a comparison that would push its product to the foreground.
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8.9.2009 Microsoft Brings a Piece of Windows Vista to Linux and Mac OS X
Microsoft has announced that it will bring a small piece of Vista to both the open source Linux operating system and the UNIX based Mac OS X. The Redmond company's partners will work to extend Network Access Protection to Linux and OS X desktops.
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13.11.2007 Mac OS X and Linux Continue to Erode Windows' Install Base
Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux operating systems continue to erode the install base of Microsoft's proprietary platform. According to statistics made available by Net Applications, Windows accounted for a market share of no less than 93.06% back in August 2007.
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2.9.2008 Vista SP2 and Windows 7 More Secure than Linux and Mac OS X Leopard
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is the absolute apex in security when it comes down to operating systems, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft, has indicated at the Midmarket CIO Summit earlier this week.
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12.4.2009 Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS Start the Market Share Ballet
At almost six months since it was initially introduced to the public in Beta stage, Windows 7 has gathered an audience almost half the size of all distributions of Linux available on the market, according to statistics from Net Applications.
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2.6.2009 Vista Growing to Match the Lack of Security of XP, Mac OS X and Linux
Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as the most secure Windows operating system available, ever since the debut of the Wow.
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15.8.2007 Linux and Mac OS X Eat Away at Windows, Even with XP SP3 and Vista SP1
Even with the latest service pack releases for the two supported Windows clients, rival operating systems Linux and Mac OS X are still eating away at the install base of Microsoft's proprietary operating system.
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3.7.2008 Mac OS X and Linux Left Scrambling for Wow Crumbs in the Windows Vista Dust
Microsoft is celebrating a veritable Windows Vista feast, while Mac OS X and Linux are left scrambling for Wow crumbs.
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2.11.2007 Mac OS X vs. Linux - Red Hat vs. Windows 98 and Above Including Windows Vista
Microsoft's Windows operating system came on top out of three different alternative platforms including Mac OS X, Linux (Red Hat), and Solaris 8/9/10, in terms of the volume of holes it contains.
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18.1.2008 Linux and Mac OS X Killing Windows Bit by Bit
Microsoft's Windows operating system continues its downward trajectory on a spiral that is seeing it continually losing “eyeballs.”
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2.12.2008 Microsoft, Adobe, and rich versus reach
With the alpha release of Apollo, all the pieces are on the table and developers can start to experiment with the platforms from Adobe and Microsoft, arguably the two biggest players in the RIA-technology space (as opposed to RIA-solutions themselves). And now that we've seen what everyone has to offer, things are going to get interesting.
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19.3.2007 Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XP
Now that the final version of Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, it’s time to find out how much of an improvement or not it will make over its predecessors, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Kai Schmerer of ZDNet Germany put all three operating systems under the microscope and here’s what he discovered.
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3.8.2009 Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux
Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home version of the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.
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13.3.2008 Windows 7 Performance Tools - Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1
Internet Explorer 8 will be not only an apex of performance, but also the next major iteration of the Windows client, according to Microsoft.
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1.9.2008 Windows Update versus Ubuntu Update
A few months ago, Steve Ballmer publicly noted that Windows Vista was “a work in progress.” That inspired a predictable outpouring of Vista-bashing.
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15.7.2008 AMD versus Intel, bye bye Intel
You may recall a few months back when AMD took out full-page newspaper ads to challenge Intel to a dual-core server duel. Intel declined to take up AMD on its offer, but the challenge got us thinking: what would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows PCs with Intel Pentium processors (and soon will likely be doing the same with Macs), but we've seen dual-core CPU AMD systems power ahead of dual-core Intel-based PCs on more than one occasion.
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27.11.2005 Windows Performance Blog
As I said in yesterday’s introduction, my job as an engineer on the Windows Vista team is to improve performance. I wanted to look at a study that measure a key area that we focused on for Windows Vista – consistent responsiveness during the times that matter most to users (when starting up their machine, after being idle, and when you are under the gun running tons of apps, etc.).
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29.12.2006 Microsoft tweaks IE 7 for performance
Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule, which occurs on the Tuesday of every month.
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8.2.2007 Microsoft IE 8 - Great Performance
This morning, my editor asked why I hadn't blogged about Internet Explorer 8. My response: "Who cares?" Do you? Maybe we both should.
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27.8.2008 Windows 7 Performance Pillars
Attempting to avoid the rather sluggish experience that has become inherently associated with Windows Vista RTM, Microsoft promised, through the voice of Steven Sinofsky, that Windows 7 would not set a single “bit” out of Redmond until it would meet a set of performance criteria.
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29.8.2008 Windows 7 Performance, Explained
From startup to the way it handles hardware resources available, power consumption and applications, Windows 7 has been applauded as delivering a level of performance superior to that of Windows Vista, even as early as pre-Beta Build 6801.
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29.11.2008 How Microsoft really does employee performance reviews
You don't need to ask your boss for a raise at Microsoft, because each year we have an annual performance evaluation where managers review employee accomplishments in a process used for deciding things like salary increases or bonuses.
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22.12.2006 Vista SP1 a Performance Dud
With the initial performance characteristics of Windows Vista leaving much to be desired (see our previous post on the subject), many IT organizations have put off deploying the new OS until the first service pack (SP1) is released by Microsoft early next year.
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20.11.2007 Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update
Vista’s performance is one of those topics that won’t be exhausted until Windows Seven hits RTM. It all comes down to trade-offs.
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12.12.2007The Windows-versus-Linux server face-off
Linux certainly has established itself as a prominent server OS these days, pushing Unix into the background. But the open source OS shares the stage
with commercial software giant Microsoft, which remains a dominant player with Windows Server.
Gartner research published this
month found the server OS market shaping up as a battle between Windows Server and Linux. Gartner in other research also has found both OSes on a
growth track in terms of revenue. "There still seems to be plenty of robust interest in deploying on Windows, but Linux is still very key," says
Gartner analyst George Weiss.
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25.02.2009Mac OS X 10.6 Brings Serious Performance Gains
While our focus at Phoronix is on testing hardware under Linux, we remain friendly and interested in other BSD and UNIX operating systems too,
including Mac OS X . With the launch of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" we have been particularly interested in it considering the technological
advancements that have been made in this update thanks to their large focus on improving the performance of Mac OS X. With that said, we have spent
all week working on a grand Mac OS X benchmarking showdown by comparing the performance of the retail build of Mac OS X 10.6.0 to the earlier Mac OS X
10.5.8 through a number of different quantitative tests. We firmly believe that as of right now these are the most detailed desktop performance
numbers available concerning Snow Leopard, but we already have more figures on the way. We have performance numbers from not just one Mac computer,
but two different setups. Here's to the first 60+ tests we ran!
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29.08.2009Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown
Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project,
Linus Torvalds.
Torvalds was in Melbourne last week for the linux.conf.au conference and was invited to pass judgement on OS X
versus Windows Vista in a wide-ranging interview.
"I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better
system," he said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is
scary."
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06.02.2008Oracle adds systems management perq to Linux OS support
As a new perquisite for customers of its Linux OS or database support, Oracle today announced free downloads and support for Oracle Clusterware, a
systems management package for both Red Hat Linux and Oracle's "Unbreakable Linux."..
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26.03.2008OpenSUSE 11.1 Linux OS leaves beta
The newest edition of the Novell-sponsored OpenSUSE Project's Linux OS, contains a number of new enhancements built both internally and through the
open source community...
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19.12.2008Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Sarah Sharp, a self-styled "geekess" and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB
subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel This makes Linux the first operating system to
support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now.
According to Ankika Kehrer, "
he basic specifications for USB 3.0 show it to have a transfer rate of 5.0 Gbps. The standard was announced in
November 2008 by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 11.06.2009
Good OS launches new cloud-oriented Linux 'Rocket'
The makers of the Good OS distribution are unveiling a Linux version with a hopefully appealing metaphor, with a focus on cloud computing...
betanews.com - 08.01.2008
Install a Linux Server on the Sony PS3 in 6 minutes
German Helios Software GmbH
simplified a Yellow Dog Linux
distribution to give you
server functionality on the
Sony PS3 in less than 6
minutes.
The
http://www.helios.de/support/p
s3_install.phtml>HELIOS
simplified YDL distribution
comes on a CD disk image and
provides a high performance
Linux server OS complete with
DHCP network settings, support
for Java 1.5 and AppleTalk
enhanced kernel. "Our Linux
distribution for PS3 is
another milestone in our
support for the Open Source
Community", explained Helmut
Tschemernjak, CEO and
President of HELIOS Software.
"And bringing our
software to the PS3 underlines
in the most obvious way, that
HELIOS Software runs
everywhere: Beginning with
UNIX and Intel Linux to Mac OS
X, Windows, and now the PS3
Entertainment Center".
winbeta.org - 29.05.2007
Linspire Offers $50 Linux OS for Free
In response to confusion surrounding a free variant of the company's desktop Linux operating system, Linspire is giving away digital copies of its OS until September 6. The move is in response to the emergence of Freespire, which used the source code from Linspire but removed licensed third party and copyrighted content...
betanews.com - 02.09.2005
Microsoft: Windows Server to Outpace Linux 3:1 by 2010
WINHEC DAY 2 In a
Wednesday morning keynote
session at WinHEC,
Microsoft's new general
manager for Windows Server
2008, Bill Laing, took the
stage and said that Windows
Server installations overall
will outpace the growth of
Linux, at 8 million versus
2.75 million by 2010...
betanews.com - 16.05.2007
Adobe Finalizes Flash 9 for Linux
Adobe on Wednesday released
the final version of Flash
Player 9 for Linux, bringing
its multimedia offering for
the open source operating
system up to date with Windows
and Mac OS X. Linux developers
can now build rich Internet
applications using Adobe's
Flex 2 SDK...
betanews.com - 18.01.2007
AOL Opens AIM SDK to Mac OS,
Linux
AOL on Monday expanded its
Open AIM initiative, adding
support for PC-to-PC calling
and new operating systems
including Mac OS X and Linux.
The Open AIM program provides
a platform for developers to
build plug-ins and custom
clients that take advantage of
AOL's IM network...
betanews.com - 12.06.2006
Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard with QuickTime X
During its developers conference on Monday, Apple previewed Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which will build on the success of OS X Leopard with a focus on
performance and stability.
Rather than add new features, the Cupertino-based Mac maker said the goal of Snow Leopard will be to
enhance the performance of OS X, set a new standard for quality and lay the foundation for future OS X innovation.
winbeta.org - 10.06.2008
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
Windows Vista has probably
created the single biggest
opportunity for the Linux
desktop to take market share,
Cole Crawford, an IT
strategist at Dell, said in an
address titled, "The Linux
DesktopFact, FUD or Fantasy?"
at the annual LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo.
For example, a number
of companies have moved back
to Windows XP after deploying
Vista, Crawford said, before
quoting Scott Granneman, an
author, entrepreneur and
adjunct professor at
Washington University in St.
Louis, as saying, "To mess up
a Linux box, you need to work
at it; to mess up your Windows
box, you just have to work on
it."
Microsoft has also owned
the desktop for more than 15
years, Crawford said, "and so
the only way for them to go is
down. But Linux can only go
up, and its growth potential
is enormous. While Linux only
has 1 percent of share on the
desktop versus Microsoft's
more than 90 percent, that is
changing, and the Linux
desktop is expected to gain
some share over the next two
years," he said.
winbeta.org - 09.08.2007
Cloud "instant on" OS coming to netbooks
Cloud, made and distributed by Good OS, will be coming to a touch screen Gigabyte net book. The OS will consist of a web browser as its main
interface and will integrate with Skype, YouTube, and the Google family of apps. The OS will ship along side a pre-loaded Windows installation, which
will will allow the netbook to dual boot either OS. The foundation for the Cloud OS is of course Linux and offers a quick and functional way to the
internet and other user essential apps. If you would like to try out the Cloud OS you will be able to install it on your own computer in the near
future.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 02.12.2008
Red Hat refreshes its Enterprise Linux distro with version 5.2
The latest version of the company's commercial version of Linux for businesses offers new hardware support, several new features, and performance and
stability improvements...
betanews.com - 22.05.2008
VM enables "write-once, run anywhere" Linux apps
A startup in Alameda,
Calif. plans to release a kind
of holy software grail the
third or fourth week of June.
Lina said its dual-licensed
Lina virtual Linux machine
will run more or less normal
Linux applications under
Windows, Mac, or Linux, with a
look and feel native to
each.
The
concept recalls Java, which
has long promised "write
once, run anywhere"
compatibility. As with Java,
Lina users will first install
a VM specific to their
platform, after which they can
run binaries compiled not for
their particular OS, but for
the VM, which aims to hide
OS-specific characteristics
from the application.
In Lina's case, the VM is
essentially a Linux
environment that supports
standard C/C++ applications,
or even perl and python, if
their respective interpreters
are installed. CTO Nile
Geisinger explained, "You
have to compile binaries
specifically for Lina, but
it's fairly trivial, no
different than compiling
binaries for SuSE or Red
Hat."..
winbeta.org - 27.05.2007
Five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
A little bit of common sense goes a long way when it comes to keeping your system safe and locked down. But some of us have friends, family, and
coworkers that need a little bit more. Ars has five freeware or shareware security apps for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that will go a long way
towards keeping your systems secure.
winbeta.org - 25.04.2008
Sun accommodating Linux in Solaris
With an incremental update to its Solaris 10 OS, Sun is extending the platform's virtualization capabilities to accommodate Linux and Solaris on the
same computer.
Sun will add to the Solaris Containers capability, which has bolstered server usage by allowing for multiple
instances of Solaris on the same server, said Dan Roberts, Sun director of marketing for Solaris. With Solaris 10 8/07, being announced Tuesday, users
can run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Linux, and Linux applications via Solaris Containers for Linux Applications.
"You can
now consolidate your Solaris and Linux apps onto one chassis," Roberts said. Solaris Containers debuted in Solaris 10 two-and a half years ago.
Virtualization, Roberts noted, has become a popular way to get more out of servers that had been running commonly at only a 10- to
15-percent utilization rate. ..
winbeta.org - 11.09.2007
Friendlier version of Fedora Linux desktop now available
A new and easier-to-use edition of Fedora -- the Red Hat-sponsored open source Linux desktop OS -- is available for free download starting today from
the Fedora Project's Web site...
betanews.com - 14.05.2008
