Re:Don't take that literally (Score 1)

You cannot deny Microsoft the right to pick a favorable setup and at the same time clamour that the test should be rigged in favour of Linux.

The point of contention was not that Microsoft got to tweak their set-up; the point of contention was that Linux experts did not get to tweak the Linux set-up (or in the case of the second test, did not get anything aproaching the same access to the box as the NT experts). I'm sure you know there were no experts from any large company that works with Linux. In fact, there were no experts at all from any company that is involved with linux. I'm sure that, given the chance, any number of companies would gladly send someone out to help Mindcraft tune Linux in order to assure a fair and unbiased test. Redhat immediately comes to mind, as does VA Research.

If Linux is any good it will perform well compared to NT no matter what the external conditions are

So, lemmie get this straight. If one OS is better than another...external conditions don't matter? Wow, what kinda wierd parallel universe are you living in? Well then, how about running the test on a Pentium 90? 64 megs of RAM, a nice 6 gig IDE hard drive...your basic small business server. If NT is so much better then I'm sure it will be able to kick linux's ass on that setup too.