From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 19:44:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB14E106566C for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sodynet1@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6233E8FC14 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadj38 with SMTP id j38so10004765iad.13 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:44:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Pwp3RmjVFJ7KAY3SAUtiXlqMvhqD3WQgHQkphcjhKgM=; b=l4Lp708Qd0heGxylsr7ob3lIOxJGRz45OQyIdPxbYlk/SuMeymfd9x8VOqT9pCN1dU Gu12VBUqbLqPtuL/e3FXOHbFDODEDcCu7UIL0kmj6//aZaFJFswSssOWjWY2G8luasag q39uuYzZLt8/tjYFpGETdJooIS7D1CLVtiB+E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.65.79 with SMTP id xl15mr3093825icb.6.1324408547912; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.41.206 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:15:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EF06765.5050107@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4EE1EAFE.3070408@m5p.com> <4EE2AE64.9060802@m5p.com> <4EE88343.2050302@m5p.com> <4EE933C6.4020209@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20111215024249.GA13557@icarus.home.lan> <4EE9A2A0.80607@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <6140271.20111219122721@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4EF06765.5050107@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:15:47 +0200 Message-ID: From: Sami Halabi To: "O. Hartmann" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Christer Solskogen , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Alexander Yerenkow , Edho Arief Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:44:38 -0000 Hi, I'm not sure i trust allbsd.org, such as their site has last updated at 2005. Sami On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, O. Hartmann < ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/20/11 10:01, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow > wrote: > >> FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, > you > >> need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just > >> found recently (my shame of course) in mail list that there is service ( > >> pub.allbsd.org) which constantly building current versions. This is > great, > >> but at homepage of freebsd.org there is no word about it :) > > > > That's because it's not official. Do you take the risk? Would a > > multi-milion-dollar company do that? > > For your private server, sure it's probably fine. But how do you know > > that those files are not contaminated? > > (That being said, the purpose of that service is good. And the files > > there a most probably 100% fine. But if it's not official... then..) > > > > Well, then, FreeBSD is with priority for multi-million-euro companies? > > No one knows whether those companies like Suse or similar are not > undermined by the US agencies or those from Telaviv. What about > Microsoft and its funny Zero-Day bugs? Do you trust that company, which > does not give any insight in its code? This shit is even more widespread > in governments, agencies and defence than "real" traitors. > > Even a multi-million-what-so-ever has to decide on their own what to > get, where to get it from and this is obviously not argument NOT giving > such valuable informations the community at hand like pub.allbsd.org. > > For years outdated stuff from a Period when freeBSD 4.X outperformed the > Linux crap is sometimes still present on the FreeBSD pages (luckily, > those has gone after a load of discussion). > > -- Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert