From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 18:21:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A3E16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:21:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC00543D48 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:21:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Freebsd0101@aol.com) Received: from Freebsd0101@aol.com by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id t.1dc.346b404d (18555); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:21:41 -0500 (EST) From: Freebsd0101@aol.com Message-ID: <1dc.346b404d.2f1967b4@aol.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:21:40 EST To: zettel@acm.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:21:48 -0000 In a message dated 1/14/05 1:07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, zettel@acm.org writes: >> still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S >> that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform. > >Not necessarily. The interesting question hasn't been addressed yet. >Is 5.3 on its fastest supported chipset faster or slower than 4.10 on >its fastest supported chipset? ---- Thats a sad commentary, if the "new" version of FreeBSD is 5% faster on a hardware platform that should be 30% faster. Is that the goal you seek? so you have to pay 50% more to get the same performance on 5.3. Thats quite a selling point!