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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:35:09 +1200
From:      Julian Peterson <weaver@unforgettable.com>
To:        David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com>
Cc:        newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ammo to take to the boss...
Message-ID:  <01071109350902.08546@wallace>
In-Reply-To: <3B4B3DB0.63B2A0FC@acuson.com>
References:  <3B4B3AE0.46F29DBB@yahoo.com> <3B4B3DB0.63B2A0FC@acuson.com>

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On Wednesday 11 July 2001 05:38, David Johnson wrote:
> Karl Agee wrote:
> > So your boss doesnt think linux or freebsd can "cut it" and he believes
> > the microsoft fud that "nobody uses linux" or other open-source os's???
> > Take a look at this article which is a compliation of all the studies
> > done in the last few years including the fud from redmond:
> >
> > http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
>
> I can't say I would recommend the article, although it's a good source
> for references.
>
> It's extremely biased towards LinuxOS. It also follows the rule that if
> you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t. One
> prominent example: "GNU/Linux with TUX produced better SPEC values than
> Windows/IIS". TUX is not a real-world web server, as it only serves
> static web pages.
>
> David
>


Sure it's a real world web server. Yes it does only serve static pages... 
it passes off dynamic content off to Apache.  But usually there is large 
amount of static content on a web site (images count in there too).  
And remember that the webspec results are calculated on a mix of dynamic 
and static content. (see here http://www.specbench.org/osg/web99/ for 
exactly what).

Info on Tux can be found at 
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/TUX-2.0-Manual/intro.html

Cheers,

Julian.


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