Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:11:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jm7996@devrycols.edu Cc: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - A User's Point of View Message-ID: <19990124171121.A36690@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901240035110.800-100000@insomnia.local.net>; from James A. Mutter on Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 12:35:52AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990123030913.20784A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901240035110.800-100000@insomnia.local.net>
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On Sunday, 24 January 1999 at 0:35:52 -0500, James A. Mutter wrote: >> My current arguments (of different quality) for FreeBSD are: >> >> 1. FreeBSD has an excellent pedigree. >> 2. For someome who has experiences with SunOS, Ultrix etc. FreeBSD is >> more familiar. >> 3. Linux is a kernel plus distributor's work, FreeBSD is a complete >> operating system. >> 4. Linux NFS performance is bad. >> 5. Linux process scheduling algorithm is worse than that of FreeBSD if >> system load is high. >> 6. As far as I've observed, the virtual memory system of FreeBSD >> behaves better. >> 7. The Linux kernel has internal limits (e.g. max number of open >> files) which may cause troubles on bigger systems. > > Don't forget this one: > 8. The Linux filesystem, ext2, is _evil_ and not to be trusted. I'd be a whole lot happier if people wouldn't make statements like this. If it's evil, explain. If you don't know any good reasons, don't spread misinformation. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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