Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 10:41:02 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The real issue... Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961204104100.00b94960@etinc.com>
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At 07:40 PM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote: > Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:16:17 -0800 > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > > Can we STOP THIS THREAD NOW PLEASE! > >No one has the friggin' balls to say it, but I will and this will be >my last message, you can be sure of that. > >The thing the FreeBSD people are worried about, is that if they make >publicly available whatever tools/benchmarks they use to measure the >better performance they get in some way over other systems, they are >afraid that the Linux people will pick it up and fix the problem. And >then there will be nothing to be said anymore. This is so totally ridiculous...I wonder what is the color of the sky in your world? There are substantial differences between Linux and 'BSD unices, enough to justify the use of one or another based on a wide variety of criteria. Perhaps a tiny majority of those that use LINUX use it because they think it is a better performer, but for the most part its because Linux is more widely known and people tend to use what they are familiar with. Even if Linux was a higher performer than 'BSD, there are enough differences in philosophy to justify the recommendation of 'BSD unices for commercial and production environments, which is a substantial market. The Linux kernel can be described as an abortion; it regularly undergoes massive changes in structure, and has a very undisciplined management team, which threatens ongoing stabiltiy. FreeBSD has a much more disciplined and talented management team, and is much more comparable to a commercial- quality products then Linux. The numbers are nice to argue about, but LINUX still has a ways to go. Dennis Emerging Technologies, Inc. (516) 271-4525
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