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> I get that Linux is popular, but no objective evaluation would claim that Linux kernel is better in any metric other than "how open source is it?" There's pr
by The_Colonel 5y ago
> I get that Linux is popular, but no objective evaluation would claim that Linux kernel is better in any metric other than "how open source is it?"
There's probably many areas where Linux comes strongly ahead - a much wider array of supported architectures, and even on the windows supported ones Linux scales much better by the virtue of being deployed from the smallest embedded computers to (all of) the largest supercomputers.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoLinux supports a larger number of architectures than NT ever did, but NT was originally implemented on a non-x86 processor to insure portability. The MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, and IA64 ports of NT are all dead, but they were all supported in the past. The speed that Microsoft brought up NT on ARM illustrates the portability too.
- throwawayboise 5y agoYeah one of the features of NT is its hardware abstraction. Even though those other platforms have fallen by the wayside I would presume that abstraction layer is still there.
- com2kid 5y agoThey never let the ARM port lapse. One developer kept it compiling as a personal project.