From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 11:30:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A81AB14C85 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:30:09 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: , "John Reynolds~" Cc: Subject: RE: Mindcruft ... Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:30:09 -0700 Message-ID: <000301be9725$4e6c7f30$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Well, someone asked this a few days ago and the general response was > that Mindcraft's reputation was rather tainted at the moment. It > would be nice though to see a test, formal or informal, of FreeBSD > 3.X, Linux (Whatever is the latest stable kernel), and NT 4.0 all > tuned by a professional on the same hardware, same situation, etc... > Generally, a fair test on a level playing field. Same hardware is not a level playing field. Sensible people optimize the hardware for the operating system they plan to use. I could show you Linux and NT beating the stuffing out of FreeBSD by using my MX98713 network card in 100Mbps half duplex mode. For some reason FreeBSD chokes on it. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message