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thirsteh
Sweet!

Recommend making that "Start" link way bigger; took a while to find while just skimming.

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nvictor 

  Category
  Microsoft Windows	N	Y
  Unix-like - Genetic UNIX	N	N
  Unix-like - Trademark / Branded UNIX	N	N
  Unix-like - Functional UNIX	Y	N
this comparison is disturbing.
nuxi
Indeed, certain comparisons are as useful as:

             Apples     Oranges
  Fruit        Y           Y
  Vegetable    N           N
  Apple        Y           N
  Orange       N           Y
reagan83
This might be good if I didn't have to keep clicking next like a top 10 list.
Mithrandir
It would be interesting to see this exported as a PDF. Apparently, you can export individual pages, but not as a whole.
Getahobby
I am going to make one more request for a single page version. Or for instapaper to pull down the whole thing in a more intelligent manner.
jbhelms
I wasn't aware that Windows 64 bit only allowed for 4 cores. I wonder if this is only Vista or if it applies to Windows 7
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zokier
From what I gather both 32 bit Vista and 7 support 32 cores. 64 bit versions apparently support 64 and 256 cores respectively.
xpaulbettsx
Windows licensing as of (don't remember, either Vista or 7) considers sockets as its unit of measure, so you'll never end up running with half the cores on your CPU disabled.
lifthrasiir
I cannot understand why the high C proportion is considered "good"; while it is (still) unusual to write kernels in languages other than C and there is a good reason for it, it does not necessarily mean that a kernel not in C is inferior to a kernel in C. How about BeOS and Haiku, for example?
xpaulbettsx
As someone who has seen the NT kernel but is still bound by NDA, I can tell you that this is wildly inaccurate from NT's perspective.
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I was hoping to see a better comparison between their performances. I don't see any use for comparing the two based on their 'openness' as we all know windows is closed source and linux is not so that comparison doesn't give us (at least me) any useful information.

Are the colors supposed to be indicative of something? is red bad and green good?

Also, for the multiprocessor limits in windows, I highly doubt they are kernel limits. They are imposed by the different flavors of the high-level OS.

The most useful bit in that comparison was about the scheduler

widefox
Thanks for the comments. The wiki is open to registrations - feel free to improve/fix/update things as you wish. Johnathon