I feel compelled to reply.
That seems like a pretty ANTI-Linux post.
If you configure X properly, try Xfree 4.01, it
really runs fast. Just by nature it will
never be as fast as a GUI done somewhat in
Kernel (thats a whole another story about
Windows and im not gonna get into it)
However, most utilities, BIND,
Qmail, Samba whatever have some sort of
GUI manager that can simplify their use
and ANY time I have ever needed to run
an X app, I always find it most convenient
to just run the X server on my workstation
(There are some nice X servers for windows)
and just invoke whatever programs remotely.
That is where the true power of X lies,
in that you can invoke an X program over
the net if you had too. Thats the whole
idea behind X, most people never realize
you can even do that, and as for complaining
it take sresources, yes it does any GUI
will.
As for X being slow.. it depends on what
Video card and version of X your using.
I have a G400 Max, and I find it to be
very very responsive (QIII runs fine
ina window, even over X) so it may not
be as fast as Windows, but comparatively
its not poor unless something is not
really setup properly.
Now, I wouldnt even install X on any
kind of production environment. I wouldnt
even install very much of anything and
then I would look at something like
bastille hardening scripts and always
mandantory is a trip to security focus
and bugtraq.. Any kind of production
system should pretty much have a canned
configuration as much as possible.
Now as to the actual CF question, I think
despite my personal beliefs that Windows
platforms are still the best choice with
ColdFusion (right now). I think that will
change in Linux kernel 2.4 (multi-threaded
TCP/IP stack among a ton of other really
cool stuff that should make Linux up
there with the BSD's as far as network
scalability). I think its pretty much
even either way, you may find CF runs a
bit quicker on NT, but as the Linux
version matures more it should easily
surpass the Windows versions.
It is just whatever you are most comfortable
with tuning and configuring, any well tuned
server is going to perform regardless.
Anyhow enough rambling.
Jeremy Allen
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From: Chris Lott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 11:47 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Which Platform is most scabable for CF 4.5?
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>So far, I
> > have found that linux is considerably faster than NT for functions such
> as news reading, web browsing, word processing, oracle and mysql
> databases and apache web serving. In fact I run Linux on a P2 350 and my
> NT machine is a P3 450 and Linux is faster!
In character mode or in X? I find that (obviously) Linux is much faster
when not running a GUI, but X performance has always been poor to
atrocious...
c
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