From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 21: 7:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from entropy.tmok.com (entropy.tmok.com [204.17.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621DD14EE9 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wonko@entropy.tmok.com) Received: (from wonko@localhost) by entropy.tmok.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA92241 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:08:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Hechinger Message-Id: <199912070508.AAA92241@entropy.tmok.com> Subject: let's get something straight. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:08:26 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com X-Useless-Header: why? because i can. X-Organization: The Ministry of Knowledge X-Dreams: an OpenWin that is based on current MIT X11 releases X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm not some unix newbie. i've been doing sysadmin work for 10 years. i asked a legitimate question and i don't think that being told to go look it up was an appropriate response. i asked here for a reason. REASON: I want documentation about real-world differences. benchmarks, direct comparisons (i ran FreeBSD and Linux side by side and this is what happened, whatever) go search the web for FreeBSD vs. Linux. 75% of it is religion, and the other 25% is "it's better because i say so." but no proof. no documentation. i need to be able to argue this case in front of a very clueful administration. these guys aren't just some suits who like pretty pie charts. these guys are software engineers. they know how this stuff works. they just don't know anything about FreeBSD and i don't think, "we should run freebsd cause it's cool." from me will change their minds. maybe i should have prefaced it with something to that effect, but i didn't and i apologize for that. however, i don't feel that getting jumped on was an apropriate resonse. i won't hold this against anybody, i'm not mad at anybody, i'm just upset that this is the attitude here. don't alienate possible users of FreeBSD, they are only helping the cause. -wonko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message