From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 18:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91F0D37B422 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 18:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 9794 invoked by uid 0); 9 Apr 2001 00:55:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.67.65) by mounet.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 2001 00:55:37 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 21:03:58 -0400 Message-ID: <00f501c0c090$f545f480$274391d8@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010408175333.B117005@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > Ted...how do you suppose Linux would behave as a server and/or desktop > platform if it ran on equipment that FreeBSD considered absolutely > top-notch? Equal to FreeBSD? A tad better or a tad bellow -- setting > aside any BSD bias (if applicable) for a moment? Okay Duke, I got this far and I blanched when you made the remark about = Linux possibly performing better than FreeBSD on the same hardware. In = my various web surfing/research, I found a column by either PC Magazine = or Byte (someone like that), where they took two of exactly the same = machine (IBM Netfinity 5500s, I believe), comparing the newest Linux = kernel with FreeBSD 4.1... both had the same application load, and were = put through various tests. As it turns out, the results were either dead even, or in favor of = FreeBSD. Now, I don't know about the rest of you all, but IBM Netfinity = machines are pretty high class where I come from. And the fact that = FreeBSD either ran neck and neck, or flat out beat Linux says something = to me... that we're on the right path here to create the best free = server operating system out there. =20 And personally, I tend to build my workstations out of former = servers... true, I may not have the fastest Athlon or PIII boxes... but, = I've got hardware that's solid and supported for the most part, with a = currently installed base. =20 --- Andy ALR Revolution 6X6 "... makes a dandy workstation." ALR Revolution Q-4SMP "... and Solaris even supports the Mylex RAID." Compaq ProLiant 1500 "... isn't it overkill for a firewall?" Homebrew PII-450 "... Windows 98 even likes it." Homebrew DX4-100 "... some of us still use OS/2." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message