[News] How Do Different Operating Systems Treat the CPU?

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uptimes project

http://uptimes-project.org/hosts/os_breakdown

One among several interesting statistics:

,----[ Quote ]
| Operating System      Average CPU Load
| BeOS                  15%
| Darwin                65%
| Embedded              99%
| FreeBSD               2%
| Linux                 2%
| mIRC                  0%
| OpenBSD               3%
| OpenVMS               17%
| OpenVMSClust          5%
| OS/2                  14%
| Unknown               0%
| Windows               35%
`----

Linux is favoured by many criteria.