Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:05:29 +0100 From: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> To: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Misinformation Message-ID: <20010425140529.A1157@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200104251242.FAA24271@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>; from dleimbac@earthlink.net on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:44:30AM -0500 References: <200104251242.FAA24271@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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* Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> [010425 13:44]: > I have run into a few people who made the following false claims about > freeBSD. > These people sounded like they knew what they were talking about when I > first spoke with them. > > 1) Its based on Mach. > 2) The SMP in FreeBSD is far superior to even Linux 2.4.x > I am sure there were more. This type of "I don't know what I am talking > about but it sounds good" attitude from whoever said it was very > convincing. <I can't remember the person's name...>. Where did you meet them? IRC? > This is obviously bad for people like myself who are interested in OS > design and got lured in to the FreeBSD camp by false claims. Luckily I > still find FreeBSD 4.2 faster and more stable than Linux 2.4.2. (note: I > haven't run 4.3 yet) Well, not all bad then. Fair play, it's a free OS. YMMV and all that. If you don't dig it, go back to Linux/Windows/wherever else you were before. No hard feelings. > I have looked into SMP in FreeBSD and it seems all the real support is > going into the 5 release. Some of the decisions in kernel design were just > as bad as the old Linux kernel back in 2.0.x as far as SMP goes. > We shouldn't lose heart though. Solaris, which is regarded as a fairly > scalable platform, was in the same situation a few years back and are now > doing much better in the SMP area. Don't know about that; I heard it sucked rocks on intel. I don't run SMP either, although I have friends woh say we have the best/only SMP support of the three BSDs. Couldn't comment on Linux. -- Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look. Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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