From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 23 21:35:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14073 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from insomnia.local.net (arc1-63.netwalk.net [206.175.61.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14062 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00818; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:35:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) X-Authentication-Warning: insomnia.local.net: jmutter owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:35:52 -0500 (EST) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jm7996@devrycols.edu To: Konrad Heuer cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - A User's Point of View In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA14063 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My current arguments (of different quality) for FreeBSD are: > > 1. FreeBSD has an excellent pedigree. > 2. For someome who has experiences with SunOS, Ultrix etc. FreeBSD is > more familiar. > 3. Linux is a kernel plus distributor's work, FreeBSD is a complete > operating system. > 4. Linux NFS performance is bad. > 5. Linux process scheduling algorithm is worse than that of FreeBSD if > system load is high. > 6. As far as I've observed, the virtual memory system of FreeBSD > behaves better. > 7. The Linux kernel has internal limits (e.g. max number of open > files) which may cause troubles on bigger systems. Don't forget this one: 8. The Linux filesystem, ext2, is _evil_ and not to be trusted. > > Regards > > // > // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ > // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ > // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / > // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ > // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- > // http://www.freebsd.org > // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de > // > > > 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