From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 20:44: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E215437B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:43:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leckert@neo.rr.com) Received: from neo.rr.com (m2-1a185.neo.rr.com [24.93.177.185]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5E3eXs23621; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:40:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B2832E5.912577BC@neo.rr.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:43:33 -0400 From: leckert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmarks and reactions References: <000401c0f465$db1c19a0$0e00000a@tomcat> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Andrew C. Hornback" wrote: > There are always going to be trade-offs, no matter what you're designing. > It's just a matter of what you want the emphasis to be on your final > product, and personally, I'm quite happy with how FreeBSD performs right out > of the box, and even better after a few tweaks. > > True, we should try to make FreeBSD as good as it possibly can be... but do > we really need to try to hit a target simply because another OS does? I'd > really rather NOT see this turn into a "Bit Monkey see, Bit Monkey do" thing > with Linux... I'll just add my $.02 worth. I've jumped from the Amiga age straight into linux, bypassing being contaminated by M$ anything (which I've always considered a plus). I've had experience with almost every mainline linux distro available, finally settling on Debian. I'm not gonna give up my Debian, but FreeBSD has impressed me so much that it's a keeper. I know I've mentioned that in passing here on the list. I've gone ahead and built another decent box that should last a while where my FreeBSD can reside, and it's going to stay. I don't need a benchmark test to tell me how it performs against linux. I have them sitting side by side here in my computer room, and I have the latest kernel, etc, on my linux box, and I keep it up to date. I make my linux buddies angry too, because I tell them the simple truth. My FreeBSD runs faster and cleaner, case closed. I also consider it as stable, probably even more stable. To me, FreeBSD wins hands down. Take the benchmark article, use the paper for something useful, load up your FreeBSD, and do some computing. You just can't lose with the FreeBSD. -- kometboy kometboy@neo.rr.com (Debian GNU/Linux) leckert@neo.rr.com (FreeBSD) http://home.neo.rr.com/leckert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message