Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:52:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: Owen Barnett <rainking@shell.futuresouth.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990110105255.C1743@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990109035423.A13514@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 03:54:23AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990109004842.2126A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> <19990108230358.A19973@best.com> <19990109212815.B1743@freebie.lemis.com> <19990109035423.A13514@best.com>
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On Saturday, 9 January 1999 at 3:54:23 -0800, Jan B. Koum wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:28:16PM +1030, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 23:03:58 -0800, Jan B. Koum wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:52:09AM -0600, Owen Barnett <rainking@shell.futuresouth.com> wrote: >>> But you are right - FreeBSD wins in the performance area >>> no questions asked. >> >> I disagree. I would ask questions, or at least answer implied >> questions. There's been enough unpleasantness between the *BSDs in >> the past; we don't want to start that again with a number of >> unqualified statements, even if they should be correct. > > You do not think FreeBSD is better in the performance > area? This is a simple yes or no question. :) Performance is *never* a simple yes/no question. Look at all the contradictory benchmark evidence out there. Personally, I have no experience with OpenBSD, so I can't evaluate its performance. If you have experience, you haven't mentioned it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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