linux vs windows

[Roisen]

I remember a while back that linux benchmarks were a lot less than windows on the same machines, but now that credit is no longer based on the benchmarks, does that mean than linux will be a better choice for a dedicated cruncher because of it's lesser amount of overhead?

[sp33dball]

Good question, I've also wondered but since I never have enough time to really sit down and play with a good Linux distro, I can't say. But one of these coming weekends I'm tempted to but Ubuntu back on and try it out, but there's no telling exactly when that might be.

[TalRW]

Heck I would say just go for linux because it's cheaper. I mean $0 for linux vs 100 bucks for a windows license. I mean no contest even if you lose some PPD.

[GTengineer]

my typical super pi in windows is 17 seconds while in Linux it is low 14's :)

my thesis codes also run significantly faster in Linux

[Shelnutt2]

You can not compare windows super pi to linux super pi. They are different code. Different methods. I mean as much as I'd love to say use linux, I can't base it on two different test.

Linux has less overhead, and in FAH Linux seems to be a bit faster than windows in nearly all work units.

I perfer linux over windows any day of the week.

[Roisen]

The computer I would be putting linux on already have windows 2000 on them, so it's more of whether theres enough difference to make the hassle worthwhile.

[muddocktor]

I'm not sure if it would be worth it if you can't find any optimized apps to run on the Linux client. The optimized apps definitely give a big speed increase with Seti.

[QuietIce]

There are optimized apps for Linux, both 32- and 64-bit, but I don't know if they're anywhere near as good as the Windows apps ...