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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 ::

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