Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 15:15:36 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD comparison - it's time, I think! Message-ID: <16801.826154136@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 10:01:35 PST." <Pine.AUX.3.91.960306093850.14566A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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> 1) The Stanford comparison of Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris which showed FreeBSD > had twice the networking performance (TCP, UDP, and NFS). Does anyone Sounds good. The Finnish Center for Supercomputing also did some Linux vs FreeBSD benchmarks, and we out-performed them 3 to 1 on the WEBFORCE benchmark. I forwarded the results of this to core recently and can probably get a URL from the guy who originally forwarded it to me. I'm sure there are others in this vein, if people can help us find them! > 2) We should not be afraid to make a Web page comparing features of > FreeBSD and Linux. We should give it the "test of fire" by posting the Oh, absolutely! That'd be one of the #1 places to put it, IMHO. Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> has also graciously volunteered to take the point position on this, so anything and everything you guys can find, please send to him! Once he's got something, we can all review it here. I also probably didn't really make it clear before that I think that this is a _very important_ project. We need to get more active in our PR here, and folks like me are spread thin enough that we're never going to get anywhere if we don't start doing more grass-roots campaigning, as it were. Losing potential users by failing to give them what they want is one thing, but losing them just because the never even _heard_ of you is a crime! :-( > 3) Full description of ftp.cdrom.com as a "case study". Also, when David is working on collecting some stats, and perhaps he'll have some nice gnuplot graphs for us soon.. :-) > people FTP to ftp.cdrom.com there should be a BIG banner, like: Uh, let's not get carried away.. :-) I think the existing opening text there is about all we'll get away with. > 5) Print advertisement! I can't emphasize this enough. I was looking Well, WC has only limited funds right now so I don't know if you'll see this go anywhere right away. We'll see. > 6) IRC support! I know this last one sounds silly, but I notice that I actually make a point of dropping in there at least once a day. Any other core team members (or anyone knowledgeable about FreeBSD at all, for that matter!) are welcome to join in. > Anyway, I'll try to work on this some more when I have time, and get some > preliminary Web pages, or maybe more suggestions. Again, let me Great, please help Warner! Jordan
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