Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:32:22 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html Message-ID: <CAGH67wSWo54jWXWx629BH9tjb-5H9iB6=ovRMtwncQ9jZOBo2Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9202191F-FCF4-481C-8B8E-8870DB7AB31B@gmail.com> References: <4E5941D6.9090106@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CAGH67wSVX=31t9rAUk1bkJUytYEdCHfsPuHMajBqAKJDnN=U1g@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo83-jUTfNNc_gqGfkXy4=e6ojRKrHmnctQ7N1cyRkoETqBg@mail.gmail.com> <20110828184758.GA1189@tiny> <CAGH67wRsn4=cP1%2Be5d4h75%2Bv_%2B-tKR-EZZKaF2eGLNyWgSDhzg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wROuEr13zRaii_954Ksa8OvmQ0D2kh5%2Bfd%2BwBS4oRHywg@mail.gmail.com> <9202191F-FCF4-481C-8B8E-8870DB7AB31B@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> wro= te: > On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> El d=EDa Sunday, August 28, 2011 a las 07:27:49PM +0100, Chris Rees >>>> escribi=F3: >>>> >>>>> On 27 August 2011 20:32, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Hartmann, O. >>>>>> <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> 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 o= f >>>> vintage stuff", "agreed", "rather FUD", but without concrete critics o= r >>>> 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 It's out of date (the obvious).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. > > Tiny nit on that: =A0The linux community has made it clear (see GregKH's = many > statements), that they will forever refuse to create a stable ABI, for th= e > express purpose of forcing hardware manufacturers to submit to their will= . Good point (forgot that essay) :). Seems like that would be a good reference for that claim. Thanks, -Garrett
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