Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:05:14 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: koshy@india.hp.com (A JOSEPH KOSHY), hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Comparing FreeBSD and other OSs Message-ID: <12715.826549514@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:49:54 %2B0700." <199603111153.MAA14681@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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> [...] So I thought up a scenario: > > We contact a number of manufacturers and computer magazines, > world-wide, and set up a benchmark web server machine. Every day, > we change the operating system, but we don't tell anybody what the > OS de jour is. We invite everybody on the web to try to access it, > and to tell us what they think of the perceived response time. At > the same time, we monitor the performance (and, of course, down time > if the be any). > > This would have the advantage of being a benchmark in the public eye, > and one in which the BSD OSs would have a clear lead. Any thoughts? I think this would be far more valuable if somebody else "thought of it", a magazine for instance, since they are far less likely to be accused of rigging the demo. Good idea apart from that little wrinkle. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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