From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 17 15:30:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291BF37B8A0 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA09909; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:28:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:28:41 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Brad Knowles , Jonathon McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux comments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Jonathan, On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > > > See some of Matt Dillon's comments regarding Linux. Our memory > >management scheme beats the crap out of theirs, although their SMP is > >ahead of ours. > > Comments on Daemonnews somewhere? Or in the mailing list archives? Yep - go read Matt's fine article about the VM system: http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html He and others have made comments (at least I believe Matt has) at /. in some of the BSD/Slashdot flamewars that have erupted. In addition to this, I still think the ports/package system beats rpms any day. Linux has problems w/ LOTS of memory as I recall (and I mean a LOT) and they certainly have problems w/ big files/filesystems. Their NSF isn't up to par either as I recall. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message