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 | | From: | Grecko | | Subject: | Operating Systems Comparision Project | | Date: | Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:14:34 GMT |
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 | Hi all,
I am a student doing a science fiar project comparing open source
operating systems (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux) and proprietary
operating systems (Windows XP), through surveys, reviews, research, and,
most importantly, benchmarks.
We have decided we would like to gather benchmarks from the following
categories to gain sufficient data to make a good conclusion on wether
or not open source operating systems are of the same speed and stability
of proprietary operating systems. However, if anyone could suggest any
additional categories to look into, we would be extremely grateful.
Also, if anyone could suggest tests to be run under the 4 main
categories that we have not included, that would be extremely
appreciated as well.
-Computational speed (time per operation/operations per unit of time)
--Numerical sorting
--String sorting
--Floating point operations
--Linear equations
--Compression / Decompression
--Encryption
--Compilation
-I/O speed (bandwidth, latency, caching)
--CPU
--Memory
--HD
--CD
--FDD
--PSI/ISA bus
-UI speed
-Network speed
We are mostly looking now for tests to be run under each of the 4 main
categories, new categories that we may have missed, and benchmarks to
run the tests. If anyone could suggest any of these, or point us to
someone or somewhere that we could gain more information from, that
would be extremely helpful.
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Thank you
Grecko
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