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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>,
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: web write-up]
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:09:57 -0800
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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
>
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