Windows VS Ubuntu Memory

I thought I'd post a link to this article on InfoWorld primarily because I love comparisons.

Over on that blog, they make a brief comparison, Windows 7 vs Vista vs Ubuntu.

On a computer with 8GB of RAM and on startup...

Windows 7 on x64 memory = 1.24 GB

Windows Vista on x64 memory = 1.34 BG

Ubuntu 8.10 = 349 MG

And the winner is...

Here's a link to the article:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2009/03/ubuntu_vs_windo.html

by Martin Heller on InfoWorld

As a side note, the article also talks about using for backups....

At my former employer and current client, I had set up an Ubuntu system on an older PC, put in better HDs.. and every night it automatically backs up data from 3 different servers...

Ubuntu has always done the job for me.