From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 6:40:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-in-02.piro.net (mail-out-01.piro.net [194.64.31.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7711C37B7C1 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com) Received: from nil.science-factory.com (ScienceFactory-atm1-153.piro.net [195.135.137.205]) by mail-in-02.piro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/PN-991208) with ESMTP id PAA17681 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:40:27 +0200 Received: by nil.science-factory.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5426020D8; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:22:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom To: txtad@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <20000811004436.11312.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com> (message from Tad Marko on Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:44:36 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Technical Comparasin 'tween FreeBSD and Linux References: <20000811004436.11312.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com> Message-Id: <20000811122253.5426020D8@nil.science-factory.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:22:53 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have often heard FreeBSD is better than Linux in many ways, but I > have never seen these quantified. > Does there exist a technical > comparasin between FreeBSD and Linux that quantifies these? > I am interested in technical facts only, not things like the cohesiveness of > the FreeBSD development effort vs. Linux (though that certainly is an > important factor in favor of FreeBSD). Yes, occasionally you will find benchmarks, like these ones http://innominate.org/%7Etgr/projects/tuning http://perl.pattern.net/bench but to be honest, while I love to see FreeBSD win and hate see FreeBSD lag behind, these comparisions are really only of limited value. We are dealing between a mostly friendly competition between open sourced operating systems. At one point in time Linux leads for a certain feature, at another FreeBSD does. While the GPL makes it harder for use to get back, in general good ideas are exchanged and show up in the other system sooner or later. Because of this it makes a lot of sense to concentrate on the fundamental differences, as are - License - development structure - support - and social issues (what, you like to develop with *these* folks?? :). A good article on that is this one http://www.daemonnews.org/200006/dadvocate.html by Greg Lehey, the stuff I mean starts a bit below the I lOVE YOU section. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message