From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 02:41:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA26560 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 02:41:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA26551 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 02:41:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from fakir.india.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA018925270; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 02:41:18 -0800 Received: from localhost by fakir.india.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA184325548; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:15:48 +0530 Message-Id: <199603071045.AA184325548@fakir.india.hp.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing FreeBSD and other OSs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 04:13:16 PST." <15186.826114396@time.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 16:15:47 +0530 From: A JOSEPH KOSHY Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "jkh" == Jordan K Hubbard said: >>>>> "gl" == Greg Lehey said: jkh> So many people ask me for comparative data on the two operating jkh> systems that I think it's time to give them what they want. [...elided...] gl> The current FreeBSD/Linux comparison is only part of a larger gl> question: which operating system should I install on my PC? [...elided...] I would also love to see comparisions done with Netware, Windows NT, SCO and others so that users get valuable information about the choices available to them. I have this feeling that many more people use Netware- / Windows- based PC networks than any form of Unix; many because of ignorance of the alternatives that are available to them. They live with egregious performance on costly hardware and lousy stability to boot. I think they deserve a better deal :). If we are going to take up the benchmarking effort seriously, we probably should have comparisions with the current "market-leaders" in PC OSes and networking products. The tough part is probably locating / creating portable benchmarks. Koshy