Stratcat wrote:

"Martin 53N 1W" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in message

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fastest SAH WU completion times come with using the SAH *nix CLI
running in WINE over Windows. I've never verified this personally.

True.

s@h compiled the Windows CLI client with better compiler optimisations than for Linux. I was running the Windows CLI on Wine on Linux along with SetiSpy and SetiQueue. All worked fine.

(Also, gcc for linux is written more for cross-platform versatility rather than single platform speed as with ICC for Windows. However, the latest gcc has some very good optimisation flags that has closed the performance gap to 'negligible'.)


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installed base M$ enjoys, including  the server market. The script kiddies
are gonna' go for the easiest, most prevalent targets to hit.

They certainly have a very large and ridiculously easy target to hit with Windows!

Guess that goes w/the territory, when you have the majority market
share: Most everyone codes to you first, including peeps coding malware!

Not quite. That is a very good myth perpetrated to 'excuse' Microsoft from blame. Unix/linux runs most of the internet and the internet is very resilient. Microsoft have skewed and badly compromised the design of Windows for 'Marketing Reasons'. We all pay with the additional costs and lowered expectations that has caused.

So much for my opinions!


Happy crunchin',
Martin