From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 5:42:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C1337B718 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dleimbac@earthlink.net) Received: from 1Cust46.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net (1Cust46.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net [63.30.107.46]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA24271 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104251242.FAA24271@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 07:44:30 CDT From: Dave Leimbach To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Misinformation Reply-To: dleimbac@earthlink.net X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have run into a few people who made the following false claims about freeBSD. These people sounded like they knew what they were talking about when I first spoke with them. 1) Its based on Mach. 2) The SMP in FreeBSD is far superior to even Linux 2.4.x I am sure there were more. This type of "I don't know what I am talking about but it sounds good" attitude from whoever said it was very convincing. . This is obviously bad for people like myself who are interested in OS design and got lured in to the FreeBSD camp by false claims. Luckily I still find FreeBSD 4.2 faster and more stable than Linux 2.4.2. (note: I haven't run 4.3 yet) I have looked into SMP in FreeBSD and it seems all the real support is going into the 5 release. Some of the decisions in kernel design were just as bad as the old Linux kernel back in 2.0.x as far as SMP goes. We shouldn't lose heart though. Solaris, which is regarded as a fairly scalable platform, was in the same situation a few years back and are now doing much better in the SMP area. Well that's it from me. I will continue to use/enjoy FreeBSD. I just wish people didn't tell lies to try and get more people involved with it. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message