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Linux and Apple run better sites than Microsoft

Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 03:03 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

A survey - dontcha love surveys? - shows that Most Linux distros are running better websites than Microsoft.

Over one month, Microsoft's home page was down for one hour and 19 minutes, according to website monitoring company Pingdom. The survey also looked at 16 Linux distros, as well as Apple - and found that almost all of them did better, with most doing substantially better.
Mandriva, Mint and Arch had more downtime - Arch had a weekend outage - but Fedora, Knoppix, Mopis and Red Hat all had no downtime at all, and CentOS and Ubuntu also came in under Apple's impressive two minutes of downtime in the month.
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