(repost to attach to the correct thread, they seemed to get mixed up somehow)
On 10/18/05, S.F.W. Neggers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to add that when working with remote PCs with more users logging on
> to your analysis server is much easier to do on a Linux box with VNC and some
> desktop manager installed, using multiple VNC sessions (for each user). When
> I tried that last time (a few years ago) it was a pain in the behind to get
> this done on Windows XP, but perhaps that changed now.
>
> Apart from this multiple desktop issue, the performance gain, the costs of a
> Windows Server OS and the fact that most Linux distros supports 64 bits for a
> few years already (Win boxes only do so very recently), it is basically a
> matter of taste ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bas
>
>
>
> Op maandag 17 oktober 2005 23:58, schreef Matthew Brett:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 10/17/05, Cinly OOI <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > Apart from installing Linux?
> > > >
> > > > (Sorry, couldn't resist)
> > >
> > > Come on everyone, lets save our energy and flame the first fellow who use
> > > Windows High Performance Computing Edition. I like the mutliple
> > > Blue-Screen-of-Death joke.
> >
> > Well, it was a partly serious point. Linux is about 30% faster than
> > Windows for SPM:
> >
> > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM-Benchmarks
> > http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/Common/spm_benchmarks.shtml
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Matthew
>
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