Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:05:10 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: dg@root.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <35432f5d.444084@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <199804251747.MAA11660@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199804251747.MAA11660@dyson.iquest.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:47:57 -0500 (EST), "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> wrote: >I don't think that DG is saying that Linux is shrinking, but the rate >of increase in growth is decreasing ... There is intelligence between >the various Linux suppliers, and I suspect that DG knows such info. I did not see him post it. >That is probably why the Linux crew is getting *more* aggressive and >not less, and more self-assurred. The growth is flattening Besides Slackware sales at Walnut Creek, I have not heard any evidence to support this. While I have your attention, I found a BSDI source license at yard sale prices and decided to performance test it (2.1 and 3.0) against FreeBSD -current. I was surprised that my disk benchmark was about 5% faster with BSDI, even compared against the latest FreeBSD -current. And their NFS leaves FreeBSD in the dust. It's nearly as fast as a disk to disk copy on a single machine, and CPU consumption is lower. When all is quiet, BSDI running TOP shows 100% idle on a 486, and on that same machine, I've never seen better than 99.6% idle on FreeBSD. I wonder what they did differently to achieve that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?35432f5d.444084>