From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 11 05:05:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA07193 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 05:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA07188 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 05:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tw7Hu-0003w0C; Mon, 11 Mar 96 05:05 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA12717; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:05:16 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Greg Lehey cc: koshy@india.hp.com (A JOSEPH KOSHY), hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Comparing FreeBSD and other OSs In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:49:54 +0700." <199603111153.MAA14681@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:05:14 +0000 Message-ID: <12715.826549514@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > [...] 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.