From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 10 14:44: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAD437B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:44:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julianp@earthling.net) Received: from wallace ([210.55.118.185]) by mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz with SMTP id <20010710214306.QLFX3996519.mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz@wallace>; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:43:06 +1200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Julian Peterson To: David Johnson , Karl Agee Subject: Re: ammo to take to the boss... Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:35:09 +1200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: newbies References: <3B4B3AE0.46F29DBB@yahoo.com> <3B4B3DB0.63B2A0FC@acuson.com> In-Reply-To: <3B4B3DB0.63B2A0FC@acuson.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071109350902.08546@wallace> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 11 July 2001 05:38, David Johnson wrote: > Karl Agee wrote: > > So your boss doesnt think linux or freebsd can "cut it" and he believes > > the microsoft fud that "nobody uses linux" or other open-source os's??? > > Take a look at this article which is a compliation of all the studies > > done in the last few years including the fud from redmond: > > > > http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html > > I can't say I would recommend the article, although it's a good source > for references. > > It's extremely biased towards LinuxOS. It also follows the rule that if > you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t. One > prominent example: "GNU/Linux with TUX produced better SPEC values than > Windows/IIS". TUX is not a real-world web server, as it only serves > static web pages. > > David > Sure it's a real world web server. Yes it does only serve static pages... it passes off dynamic content off to Apache.  But usually there is large amount of static content on a web site (images count in there too).   And remember that the webspec results are calculated on a mix of dynamic and static content. (see here http://www.specbench.org/osg/web99/ for exactly what). Info on Tux can be found at http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/TUX-2.0-Manual/intro.html Cheers, Julian. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message