From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 15 12:23:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA03299 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA03294; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02389; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607151923.MAA02389@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: dyson@FreeBSD.org cc: winter@jurai.net, chat@FreeBSD.org, core@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I ask you to respond to Linus In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jul 1996 08:16:19 CDT." <199607151316.IAA06445@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:23:49 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From The Desk Of "John S. Dyson" : > > > I think that there has been a movement in Linux to show that Linux is faster > than FreeBSD, and they are showing in reality, that at best (under no load) i t > that is equal in certain areas... Linus must be very frustrated by that. > > The biggest problem is that the benchmark suite that is cited as being > able to definitively show the performance difference is inadequate for > the task. I would say that their biggest problem is to prove that their new networking code works at all 8) It is kind of cute to show benchmark results even if they are not directly applicable;however, it is a different story to place the same OS in a production environment. It looks like the linux crowd threw everything they had at the networking code and after years of efforts they come up well code just about as fast as the BSD code . So they got a wheel just as fast as ours 8) Regards, Amancio