From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 18:53:56 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 6097F16A4D0 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:53:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0130643D46 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:53:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0EIrEtB088788; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:53:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <41E81512.5080508@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:53:06 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freebsd0101@aol.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-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 18:53:56 -0000 That always cheerful and bright troll@aol wrote: [snip] > > So your claim that its a "heavy-duty server" platform is tainted by the > fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the > slower, > 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. As was pretty clearly explained in previous threads, FreeBSD 5.x is slower than 4.x *at certain tasks under certain conditions* because it is rather considerably more featureful and complex than 4.x (duh?). It has also been said to be rather faster than 4.x at certain other tasks under other conditions, so your mantra of "5.x is slow" is really growing a bit thin. If the rough spots bother you, please contribute patches, contribute money, contribute hardware, or... at the very least, stop changing your address so I can plonk you once and for all without resorting to nuking the entire aol domain. 8-P I've been using FreeBSD since 2.1 (has it really been 8 years?) because the development seems so consistently focused on being the "best" as measured by solidity, consistency, standards conformance and clarity of component boundaries rather than "best" as in slickest-looking or fastest through the gate. If speed comes by cutting corners, bending rules or mixing up things that are rightly separated, I don't want it, thanks anyway. Many, many thanks to all who contribute work, or money, or sage advice, or the very least, a bit of good humor to this project and list. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348