From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 10:38:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA12202 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:38:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12197 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:38:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA01675; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:39:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:39:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199603061839.NAA01675@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Ron G. Minnich" From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD comparison - it's time, I think! Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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