From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 19 16:53:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0475014D95 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:53:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA09756; Thu, 20 May 1999 09:23:03 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA09348; Thu, 20 May 1999 09:22:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:22:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Donald Wilde Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: linux.com misconceptions Message-ID: <19990520092257.M89091@freebie.lemis.com> References: <99051916483400.07598@thanatos.conio.net> <37432551.6808FC52@thuntek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37432551.6808FC52@thuntek.net>; from Donald Wilde on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:55:45PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 19 May 1999 at 14:55:45 -0600, Donald Wilde wrote: > Sam Stephenson wrote: >> >> Anyone care to comment on the blatant misinformation here? >> http://linux.com/linux@work/oscomp.phtml#l17 >> Linux.com hasn't been up for 24 hours yet, and they're >> already lying about BSD. >> >> The most obvious distortions are: >> - Scalability: BSD is listed as "Small to Large," while >> Linux is listed as "Small to Huge." > > They're probably referring to Beowolf clustering techniques as their > "huge". That doesn't change the fact that the typical Linux system doesn't scale well. And IIRC Beowulf dies if one processor dies, making it less reliable, not more. Don, I think you're the guy to write them a calm, friendly letter explaining the inaccuracies, in particular referring to the Gardener Group report. You should also remind them of BSD/OS and OpenBSD as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message