Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:52:02 +0100 (BST) From: "Jon Mercer" <jon.mercer@achean.com> To: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@dslextreme.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Negative Review of FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <60053.217.33.199.34.1117734722.squirrel@webmail.achean.com> In-Reply-To: <20050602100934.Y20286@Osgiliath.home.lan> References: <429EF96E.16172.33600ABA@localhost> <20050602100934.Y20286@Osgiliath.home.lan>
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On Thu, June 2, 2005 18:47, Neal E. Westfall said: >>> Anybody have any thoughts on this review? >>> >>> http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/2153257&tid=8 >> >> I suggest you provide your thoughts first. > > Well, as I run FreeBSD on older 32-bit hardware, I have not seen some of > the problems the author mentions, so my thoughts on the article will be > somewhat limited. The impression the author gives is that the 4.X branch > was more stable, but it doesn't appear that the author has actually used > the 4.X branch. It probably isn't really a fair comparison anyway, as the > 4.X branch doesn't support the hardware he was trying to use. > > I would have liked to see how a major linux distribution or two would have > fared on the same hardware. I don't think that the reviewer really did > extensive enough testing to be able to render a fair review, as he was > using some pretty bleading edge hardware, and it is not clear from the > review whether linux would have fared much better. > > Then again, as a FreeBSD user myself for a good 15 years or so, I am > probably a little biased towards FreeBSD. Maybe linux is rock-solid on a > 64-bit platform. It appears to be pretty stable at my jobsite, where we > run 64-bit Linux on two Altix servers, but they do freeze up every once in > a while, maybe once every 2-3 months, requiring a hardware reset. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The same reviewer did a review of OpenBSD a couple of articles previously: http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8 On the whole his experience looked worse than with FreeBSD, but the tone of the OBSD article was more favorable. Anyone else notice this? Jem Matzan just seems to be anti-FreeBSD. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Achean Ltd http://www.achean.com Jon Mercer jon.mercer@achean.com Director -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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