Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 03:47:20 +1200 From: Craig Carey <snowfall@gmx.co.uk> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030626021720.05eeb998@pop.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030624164709.Q76569@brainguts.no-ip.com> References: <200306231041.29418.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <002201c33812$5b881e80$c601a8c0@starfly> <20030621202703.GB10127@over-yonder.net> <200306231041.29418.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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At 2003-06-24 16:51 -0700 Tuesday, Eli Scott wrote: > >I know I'm a bit late on this one, but maybe they should run FreeBSD >against Gentoo on the big TechTV Linux vs FreeBSD shootout. I know >whenever I try and advocate FreeBSD to my Linux friends running Gentoo, >they always point to Portage as being a ports killer. ... Here are some 2001 comments by the CEO of Gentoo: : Surprises in ext3 : Daniel Robbins (drobbins@gentoo.org) : President/CEO, Gentoo Technologies, Inc. : December 1, 2001 ... : Andrea's new VM implementation (which first appeared in 2.4.10) was : really great; it really sped up the kernel and made the entire system : more responsive. 2.4.10 was definitely a major turning point in 2.4 : Linux kernel development; up until then, things weren't looking very : good, and many of us were wondering why we weren't FreeBSD developers. ... : Ext3 has a stellar reputation for being a rock-solid filesystem, http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8.html The reputation of the next builds upon the reputation of the earlier filesystems.. Destructive testing could be done if FreeBSD had to come out as the winner. I don't recall quantitative BSDishy articles using a destructive testing methodology as the chief method for getting Linux rejected. It took me about 2 power-offs of Linux (running in PC), to upset KDE so that it could not boot. To die after only 2 power-offs is most unimpressive. That was with the software over the SGI XFS filesystem, which could be quite reliable: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ Testing would be quicker if VMware was used. [Reinstalling KDE can take a long time] However I was unable to get Linux 2.4.21 and 2.5 to boot inside of VMware whilst the "/" filesystem was XFS. Perhaps crashing KDE does not get the FreeBSD to Linux crashing ratio under 1/35th. Craig Carey
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