From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 18:30:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA28187 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28146 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01186 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:13:31 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA24342 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:08:07 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11351 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA10332 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:37:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA10294 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:37:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA15357; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:35:08 -0800 (PST) To: Jake Hamby Cc: Greg Lehey , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing FreeBSD and other OSs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 08:51:36 PST." Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 15:35:08 -0800 Message-Id: <15355.826241708@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > our own product in the other pages. This page would also have an > emphasized message saying something like: "We want FreeBSD to be the > best operating system it can be. If you decide to choose one of the > other OS's (especially Linux) please fill out this brief survey to show > why you made your decision." Then we can have a _brief_ fill-out form, > which I can make a CGI to tabulate and automagically post the results. That's a neat idea. I like it! > Certainly that is the primary focus of the Web page layout I'm > designing. I plan to have lots of cold, hard facts, but those would be > available as hypertext links. So where a primary page would say "FreeBSD > outperforms Linux by 3 to 1 for an Internet server!" there would be a link > to the full study. This way, people can skim through literally dozens of > FreeBSD advantages, and if they are particularly interested or skeptical > about one, they can click on the actual survey, and so our ethical > integrity is maintained. By the way, it would be nice if we had the Excellent. Sounds like you've struck the right balance here. > funding to perform some USABILITY studies head-to-head with Linux, > because I really believe our product is better "out of the box" than most I doubt that we'll get any funding for stuff like this, but you should be able to get a number of people to volunteer time and systems for this if you ask them nicely.. :-) Jordan