From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 22:49:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EB1106566B for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:49:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from subscriber+freebsd@markshroyer.com) Received: from frodo.paleogene.net (frodo.paleogene.net [206.125.175.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADE18FC13 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from auth-client.paleogene.net (auth-client.paleogene.net [206.125.175.178]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by frodo.paleogene.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB74D3F551 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:31:07 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=markshroyer.com; s=default; t=1266532268; bh=sDU6vtj0kzYDesSm9QQ8gkp8UW2UcvD0LC5fKS2bfK8=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BFUOnxBa/L0UBS69fB8+8aB7T1uCy2DZVwF2BCkmkfrA5iRyQdEEFTdNszVjaVxWI a3a8q8UlASCUwAXfYpbjTrfTvCL1SHxBKESje+MWqOWJZWRrC7DsVyNbR+kCePq+Xt qbRVtqdWP72PcpDak+TAnGR08679bYski4G2+RXw= Message-ID: <4B7DBFA3.7010101@markshroyer.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:30:59 -0500 From: Mark Shroyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <87vdduespd.fsf@kobe.laptop> <242758.48200.qm@web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <242758.48200.qm@web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:49:44 -0000 On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html If those numbers are characteristic of the operating system's overall performance, then that's a really impressive leap forward for NetBSD. That said, I use FreeBSD mainly on small, individual servers; as we all know, there's a lot more that goes into selecting a server OS than raw performance numbers. Stability, security features (like the ability to run Apache jailed with whatever random, potentially insecure CGI or PHP applications one must install), and ease of software installation and maintenance are important too, and for me FreeBSD excels at these things. But between these massive performance improvements, and its mature Xen compatibility, and the fact that they evicted Sendmail from the base system in favor of Postfix, NetBSD really has my attention. (In fact I'm setting up a VM right now so I can get a feel for how NetBSD + pkgsrc handles as a server.) Now if only it had jails... -- Mark Shroyer http://markshroyer.com/contact/