From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 13:25:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09688 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:25:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09678 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:25:35 GMT (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.31]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA7389; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:28:29 +0500 Message-ID: <35327496.446B9B3D@asme.org> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:24:54 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? References: <199804131735.NAA14509@shell.monmouth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I had some email with Tim Parker, the "technical editor" of SCO World, and he said that "...FreeBSD is a good product, but quite frankly Caldera's version of Linux is much better...". I told him he should substantiate such an afirmation with benchmarks, and that I was particularly sure that Linux would not get up after a power failure if it was doing a hard disk operation. Of course I never got reply...SCO World is not a technical magazine..it's not even a UNIX magazine anymore :(. Perhaps FreeBSD should try to join other OS's to contract a benchmarking firm? Pedro. Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > > We really need to be evangelical. How about a Unix shoot out test. > Get all the PC Unix's and get someone like Byte or Unix Review benchmark > them on equivalent hardware for speed, stability, ease of installation, > reliability. > > I'm betting on FreeBSD being near or at the top. > > I'm also trying to work on a couple of things we need to match Linux in the > features department. (Yeah, the Run-level stuff as a package. The SysV > generation (myself included) would like the flexibility it supplies. > > If it's optional and not installed automatically it's not bloat. It's choice. > (Linux may be the choice of the GNU Generation -- but FreeBSD gives you the > choice of just about everything on the net). > > I've got to write InfoWorld again on IP Masquerading under OS's other than > Linux. > > Bill > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Bill/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive | Tinton Falls, New Jersey 07724 | > | 908-389-3592 | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. | > | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message