From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 28 19:15:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C9C1065670; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66AEB8FC08; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so1447209qyk.13 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT) 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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=s07Ca8ylnfnpyAQZ0fPMqPJohPLvSfaX4z9EBIAiIW0=; b=qcFkcgxKh0wcXoxlOYqlmox0LTroHa4BTmIPL7blPj+upUHGb0zK+W0BQtM5rBsqbz ZtpCf4FusQYA6xpDLAu0RIHNs2TGOfxjpdX1KteVEfSBsxurmD/uYTT/Zmcfftt4Y5Ji 6VK2WUswM3aplpTu/bS1hCAggFV/AVz2dyjo4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.198.73 with SMTP id en9mr662565qab.29.1314558904206; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.19.131 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E5941D6.9090106@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20110828184758.GA1189@tiny> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:15:04 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Matthias Apitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Chris Rees , "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" , freebsd Current , "Hartmann, O." Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:15:06 -0000 On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote= : > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote= : >> El d=EDa Sunday, August 28, 2011 a las 07:27:49PM +0100, Chris Rees escr= ibi=F3: >> >>> On 27 August 2011 20:32, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Hartmann, O. >>> > wrote: >>> >> This website should be brushed up or taken offline! >>> >> It seems full of vintage stuff from glory days. >>> >> >>> >> http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html >>> > >>> > Agreed. Things have changed quite a bit in the last decade. >>> >>> It reads rather FUD-like too. >> >> It's a pitty that the comments until now are only general like "full of >> vintage stuff", "agreed", "rather FUD", but without concrete critics or >> proposals of changes of wrong data. > > Ok then: > > 1. It's out of date (the obvious). This comes down to some of the > information being completely incorrect as far as featuresets, and just > looks embarrassing in other respects because it's using Windows 2000 > as a comparison (it's a 10 year old OS). > 2. Broken links. > 3. The smiley icons are very unprofessional. > 4. There's a lot of wasted horizontal space on the webpage. > 5. There's no data to back up some of the claimed observations (what > version of FreeBSD, Linux, Windows were used; what performance metrics > were obtained; how things were tuned; etc). > 6. Some of the data (example: the SQL error text under "Performance" > in the Windows column) is in the wrong spot, s.t. it distracts > readers. If anything it belongs in the footnotes. > 7. The breakdown is too terse. Execs and business types like looking > at bullet points; the technical folks like looking at things in more > gross detail. One more: 8. Text like "The Linux community intentionally makes it difficult for hardware manufacturers to release binary-only drivers." is confrontational and unprofessional. It's the GPL license more than the community that forces vendors to opensource proprietary code because that's the primary goal of the license -- to keep the source free and open -- whereas BSD allows the developer to do whatever they want with the source. Thanks, -Garrett