From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jun 29 3:15:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from amanda.swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (hide14.nhs.uk [194.6.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE02114BF4 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 03:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk) Received: from greg (gquinlan [194.81.0.56]) by amanda.swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA97853 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:13:00 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <019001bec218$43a14a40$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Greg Quinlan" From: "Greg Quinlan" To: References: <006c01bec1fa$449e1c70$126b330a@pdm.dk> Subject: Re: [Linux vs. NT, take 2.] Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:15:07 +0100 Organization: Queen Mary's Hospital (SWLCT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Many years ago when dealing with another x86 based OS I was employed to tune the OS's for clients. (which all centred around how much power the machine had and how many users the client had, or what they were doing, db etc) Back then you could install the OS out of the box... and make it run like a dog (so many people did this!) Or I could take a little time to increase network resources, read/write buffers, maximum processes, etc and make the same operating system perform like a F1 race car. The point I am trying to make is that; Despite the fact that Linux (FreeBSD) runs well on low specified hardware, Microfuss does not. Who out there in user land has a machine as highly specked as the one used for testing without taking the time to tune it. Is it not reasonable to ask for a broad spectrum test rather than an extreme (to show what a farce the test was.) It is fair to say that while Micro-softness are a media machine, it can also argued that this is the only tactic left for them to stop the Linux (FreeBSD) media avalanche (of course they can't buy a Free-OS) It is highly flattering to think that the richest computer software company in the world should compare itself with FREE software..... I think that people should be laughing rather than getting angry..... Microfuzz is getting worried??? It is also fair to say that Micro-madness is guilty of manipulating data yet again, not going for independent tests (as they did in giga-net tests!) ... and from now on should be know as Micro-minded. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message