From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 21:25:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A3614EE9 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2400 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 06:25:19 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 450; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:28:21 +1100 Message-ID: <384C99C1.FC85D1F5@S1.com> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 16:23:13 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: let's get something straight. References: <199912070508.AAA92241@entropy.tmok.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Brian, I didn't notice anyone 'jump on' you - in fact all I can see in my listing are two replies to your original request. Maybe I'm missing some :'/ Sometimes I think so {sigh} > > 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. > Ok. I think one reason no-one has presented 'hard-cold-facts' is because it's hard to nail down. What is the "application" involved? Indeed, such a comparison will probably differ from company to company. You know already about Micro...uh... HotMail and Yahoo and of course Walnut Creek. Perhaps you should take aside two identically configured machines, load Linux on one, FreeBSD on the other, and run them side-by-side gathering stat's for your new company's application. Do the comparison. Hey, maybe Linux is better suited to it than FreeBSD. I don't think you can make a blanket statement that for every conceivable application suite, FreeBSD is better than Linux. Heck, even the Linux distro's differ in their capabilities. I use FreeBSD because I like the order which is inherent in a small team doing the releases, rather than the seemingly chaotic Linux release policy. This is not to say that it actually _is_ chaotic, it just "seems" that way to me. :') Yes, it will come to personal opinion. And I expect that the 'old-guard' Linux'ers will be less-than-enthused at the "new boy" coming in and trying to change to ( obviously superiour) O/S :') Enjoy your new job. I started here in APril this year, and I am still having a blast. Well, execpt for having to get icky-NT-goop on my hands the last couple of days. Regards, Harry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message