Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:30:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: recent zd linux article, possible BSD one.... Message-ID: <Pine.GSU.4.05.9901312221420.2626-100000@www.ainet.com>
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I'm sure that many of you saw the slashdot.org bit, see : http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/01/29/1533221.shtml about the zd article that compared 3 Linux distrib's with NT4. They did some fairly simple non-tuned ( read : out of the box ) comparisions of the 3 Linuxs against NT, in regards to IIS vs Apache and Samba vs NT File Sharing. The story can be found at : http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html Well, I thought it was a fairly neat arrangment, even though it was fairly simple since they didn't do any tuning/tweaking which isn't very real world. So I thought I write the two authors, who were : Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <Steven_J._Vaughan-Nichols@zd.com> Eric Carr <Eric_Carr@zd.com> Below is first the email that I sent, followed by the two responses that I got back ( one from each author ). They got back to me very quickly (read : least than 10 minutes?), and Steven indicated that they may do something similar with the BSD area. I hoped to gently encourage them to do so. ------------------------------ I just recently read through your Linux Up Close: Time to switch article. Pretty neat article, it helped confirm what I already believed. I did also thing of something that may also have been very useful during those tests, including FreeBSD in your line up of tests. Are they any plans to do something like that in the future that would include FreeBSD in your testing? Also it would be nice to see Netware in there test as well. I think with those two included you would get a much more well rounded picture. Thoughts? Thanks...... --------------------------------- We probably will be taking a look at the commercial BSD in its next incarnation. At that time, we'll probably take at least a quick look at FreeBSD and NetBSD. As for Netware, someday, when we have time. Steven -------------------------------- Joseph: Our focus was Linux; specifically, Linux distributions from organizations that have a reseller program. Thanks for your comments. Eric ----------------------------------- * Joseph M. Scott * jmscott@ainet.com * American InfoMetrics * Modesto, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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