From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 10:30: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49CB037B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:30:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9199343E4A for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with SMTP id <2003010818300305300djslqe>; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:30:03 +0000 Message-ID: <3E1C6E26.4010603@mac.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:29:58 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Ellis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web write-up References: <98130130380.20030108095305@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Ellis wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results > of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than > favourable light. > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm > > Please CC any replies as I am not currently subscribed. > well, I'm not sure how FreeBSD 4.2 is "the latest version available from a commercial distribution" for one thing. Isn't one of the benefits of open source OSes that you can customize the kernel to meet your needs? Seems to me this is not a very meaningful comparison. This seems like a pretty generic task: it's hard to see how FreeBSD came in dead last. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 You do not have mail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message