Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:14:44 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: <joel2a@yahoo.com>, "De la Cruz Lugo Eric" <eric@iteso.mx> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article.) Message-ID: <001d01c0f3b6$fe92b9c0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010612184220.026a2aa0@pop.mail.yahoo.com>
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That article seems to be skewed, as far as I can see... If you look at sidebar 2, they list the machines and OSes that they use there. Does anyone see FreeBSD among the list of what they use personally? Are you really going to give something an honest chance if you don't work with it personally? They use RedHat for file servers because it runs Samba. Well, as far as I know, Samba can be run on Solaris as well (which they talk up earlier on in that page for it's stability...) And the mention of how the software RAID for Linux is incredibly fast but not reliable. Now folks, I'm not the brightest bulb in the lamp, but I know full well that if anything on the network needs to be reliable, it has to be the file server! Would you ever run anything that lacked the needed reliability only because bonnie or some other benchmark told you it would run faster? PLEASE. They talk up FreeBSD here because of Vinum (kudos to Greg). There's also a slam on FreeBSD being harder to install than RedHat. Umm... no. Not from what I've seen and I've been working with FreeBSD since 2.2.6... at that time, the various Linuxii installs were atrocious. One last thing... who in their right mind is going to run that many different OSes in a production environment? Two versions of Solaris, Windows 2000 and NT, RedHat (which can be an administration nightmare in and of itself alone), and OpenBSD. Six different platforms... talk about insanity. Additionally, "The operating systems were the latest version available from a commercial distribution and were not recompiled (i.e., everything was tested right out of the box)." How many people in their right mind would put a non-optimized, right out of the box system into a production environment? They claim this to be a real-world test. I don't think so... putting any system up, straight out of the box, would be an invitation to get hacked. In the "How to Determine Which Network Programming Architecture Is Being Used" sidebar, they don't even have a reference to FreeBSD. Now, I wonder... was this just a token "Let's throw FreeBSD in for the name recognition" sort of deal or what? "It's a conspiracy..." One last thing to point out... the publisher here is also in charge of publishing the MSDN Magazine (a Microsoft rag). Do you honestly think that they would publish something showing that Microsoft was last in line? Windows 2000 finishes third just in front of FreeBSD in one of the graphs, and Windows runs neck and neck with Linux in the other one. This is one of those things that you take with the whole shaker of salt, and the shaker itself. --- Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > joel2a@yahoo.com > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:43 PM > To: De la Cruz Lugo Eric > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article. > > > I don't know about that but it is weird. > Since all the hype about freebsd says that it is supposed to be the best > server. > But their numbers in the article say differently. > > > > > > > At 04:29 PM 6/12/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Right URL is: > > > >http://www.samag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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