Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 14:46:02 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: from -chat, Re: Mindcruft ... Message-ID: <199905072146.OAA19941@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 14:00:00 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990507135337.7628W-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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>On 7 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> 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... I have plans for benchmarks, but on my terms, not on someone elses. You can only be assured of winning that PR game if you control the conditions of the experiment (and I don't me "control" in the scientific sense). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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