[PLUG] PC Week test NT and RedHat.

[Dave Jacoby]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, David wrote:

>In case no one saw, 
>http://www.hackpcweek.com/
>they are pitting NT vs. RedHat in terms of security. If you notice though,
>the two sites aren't set up the same, nor have they used similar resources
>in setting up the servers themselves. I don't know if this is supposed to
>be "fair" or what, but just thought I'd point it out.

The other objection to these things is that anyone who could really
beat up a machine would be far better served by exploiting the found
hacks than to turn 'em in for the prize. 

>You ever notice how they always pit one OS against another? why not five
>or six? I'd like to see FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. MacOS X server vs. NT vs.
>AIX vs. Digital Unix etc...

I saw something on some site or another, I think Deja, that did that:
did a head-to-head with Solaris, NT, Linux, Be, MacOS and OS/2. I
don't recall how it went.

>David Sierkowski
>calx

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