From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 18:46:41 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 B669116A4CF for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:46:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E29C43D31 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:46:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050114184640i9200itaene>; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:46:40 +0000 Message-ID: <41E8138E.4050109@nbritton.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:46:38 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freebsd0101@aol.com References: <1dc.346b404d.2f1967b4@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <1dc.346b404d.2f1967b4@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: zettel@acm.org 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 18:46:41 -0000 Freebsd0101@aol.com wrote: >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! > > Is that you Tm4528@aol.com?, whats TM for btw, Troll Master?