From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 4 12:30:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02681 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 12:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02673 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 12:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id UAA19630; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 20:15:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA15086; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 21:02:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19971004210211.32240@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 21:02:11 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Simon Shapiro Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 08:50:02PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi ! On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 08:50:02PM -0700, Simon Shapiro wrote: > I still like FreeBSD installation better. The rest is pretty much > the same to me. Can't understand this. Could you please explain it a bit more ? Based on my own experience I can't follow here... > Kernel-wise, I think i trust FreeBSD kernel better than Linux, > although performance is, well, six of this, half a dozen of the > other; Both are tuned very well. Could you please explain this a little more verbose as well. So you are saying that FreeBSD has about half the performance as Linux ? You're kidding ;-) Or did you compare things like the speed of rm -rf on a large directory tree without recognizing, that FreeBSD doesn't do asynchronous I/O to a file system as default ?! Please facts here. -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' andreas@klemm.gtn.com - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html andreas@FreeBSD.ORG - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html