“Open Source Windows Sounds interesting — plus he wants our feedback! Leave him your thoughts (^_^)”

Wow…Yeah.

I agree with the comments of others that say MS shouldn’t opensource everything. Maybe older code like 95 or 98 or even 3.1 and DOS. Or they could opensource their accessories like Media Player and Notepad, that sounds like a good idea too. The thing is, the threat of what license and would it provide enough freedom to do any help. That, and bugs that may cripple the software, but with old software that shouldn’t be too much of a problem, as long as they only release the source for rare-ly used programs. It might effect things like Media Player, but it might help as well.

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07.09.06: B6 d++ t+ k s u- f i+ o+ x e l+ c+

Old codes:
08.08.05: B3 d++ t+ k s u– f i o+ x e+ l++ c+10.14.05: B4 d++ t+ k s u- f i o+ x e l++ c+

After reading this comparison of WinRAR and 7-Zip, I stated that I should look into RARing files. And I did. I installed WinRAR and tested it against 7-Zip. Here’s the results

The folder I zipped was my 341 MB Apache folder for my test server that I run on this computer for development. It contains the Apache applications, PHP applications, images, PHP scripts, HTML files, some text files, and some video. I chose it solely because I needed to back it up, but it does have nice file diversity. =P Compression was done on my laptop, with its 1.3 GHz Celeron and 1.25 GB of RAM

WinRar

RAM Used: 62 MB
CPU Used: Used all free CPU.
Time Elapsed: 12:54
Compressed Size: 306,408 KB (299 MB)
Not much to say here, it compressed, nothing notable happened.

I did two tests for 7-Zip because as stated in the comments in that article, 7-Zip Ultra is rediculously RAM-eating.

7-Zip Ultra

RAM Used: 528 MB
CPU Used: Fluctuated, but usually used all free CPU.
Time Elapsed: 13:30
Compressed Size: 305,356 KB (298 MB)
So, for about 30 seconds extra and a lot of RAM, you too can save 1 MB of space! 7-Zip did warn me that it’d need 510 MB, so it’s calculations there worked.

7-Zip Maximum

RAM Used: 191 MB
CPU Used: Around 75%
Time Elapsed: 10:30
Compressed Size: 306,041 KB (298 MB)
Overall, I think this one did best. It beat the other two tests in time by a lot, and was only 700 KB larger than Ultra for less than half the RAM.

So, as soon as I actually release the new version of my portfolio, this will definately be going in the reviews section. =P

“I stumbled across this site on distrowatch.org. You can but a $75 PC with your favorite Linux distribution installed; just add keyboard, mouse and monitor.”

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