Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:09:57 -0800 From: "Peter Kieser" <pfak@telus.net> To: "Michal Pasternak" <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "paul beard" <paulbeard@mac.com>, <advocacy@freebsd.org>, <sellis@telus.net> Subject: Re: [Fwd: web write-up] Message-ID: <001201c2b76b$10586f50$c601a8c0@silverpenny> References: <3E1C8287.1020506@mac.com> <3E1C9249.551D6932@mindspring.com> <20030108220533.GB18151@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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The interesting thing about this article, was it was just _recentley_ posted on slashdot. Heh, and we wonder why everyone thinks of slashdot as an incorrect news source, probably was posted just to downplay Windows & FreeBSD. --Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micha³ Pasternak" <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "paul beard" <paulbeard@mac.com>; <advocacy@freebsd.org>; <sellis@telus.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: web write-up] > Terry Lambert [Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:04:09PM -0800]: > > This is a very old article. All it demonstrates that the software > > that was used in the statistics gathering was written with bad > > assumptions by people who did not know how to make code run fast > > anywhere but Linux. > > We all know, that 99% of benchmarks and statistics are untrue, > but does any of you know about a recent surveys comparing > speed of (network|filesystem|vm|anything else) on FreeBSD > and Linux? > > I'm especially concerned about softupdates + dirhash compared > to ext3fs or reiser. NVidia's drivers performance should be > also easy to perform. > > -- > mp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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