From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 7 11:40:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FAC14E46 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 11:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA07076; Fri, 7 May 1999 14:00:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:00:00 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: John Reynolds~ , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: from -chat, Re: Mindcruft ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Reynolds~ writes: > > I wonder how we could get in on this fun ... > > > > http://www.mindcraft.com/openbenchmark.html > > > > I'm sure that 3.1-STABLE or some other variant could compete quite well at > > this little game ... > > No. Don't you get it? The game is rigged. Mindcraft gets big money > from Microsoft for doing these tests and making sure NT comes out on > top. It's risky, but since they are allowing the "Linux experts" access to the machines to do tuning, and the benchmark specifications are sort of "open". Although it gives me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, I don't really see how this could be "rigged". I don't think this should be so easily dismissed, some of FreeBSD's finest should look into doing this. Not only would they get fame, but so would the project... *cough* DG *cough* :) I'm not saying it _should_ be done because I don't have enough knowledge about FreeBSD tuning to compete in such an event, I'm just saying someone *cough* David *cough* might want to look into it. If played right it could put FreeBSD in _quite_ a good spot... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message