Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:39:52 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD comparison - it's time, I think! Message-ID: <199603061839.NAA01675@etinc.com>
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Ron says... >Sounds fine to me, but I think we should make an effort to be absolutely >fair and to show some integrity. All numbers should be verified with >2 or more people, and pointers to the results should be maintained. If we >get a rep for playing fast and loose with the facts then we have a >problem. If we get a rep for being honest and being willing to give linux >its due (and it does have its good points) then we get to be an honest >broker. Its very difficult to be objective with benchmarks because they are so highly dependent on a particular piece of hardware or driver. For example whenever someone mentions FreeBSD vs BSDI some banana pulls out a benchmark with dual buslogic EISA adapters where BSDI may be superior, when the same test with an Adaptec PCI controller might be completely the opposite. Its almost impossible to have a single benchmark comparison for unix systems. You need to chose several "reasonable" systems with different hardware and show several benchmarks with each..... Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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