From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 15:33:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E81637B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D41443EE6 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA23506; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:33:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:33:21 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: Bill Moran Cc: Sean Ellis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web write-up In-Reply-To: <3E1C5D98.7060304@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Personally - I dont care what some lamer writer said - what I CARE about is that I SLEEP at nite since switching to fbsd.. the fbsd programmers saved me from tossin myself off a roof! On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: > Sean Ellis wrote: > > Hello freebsd-questions, > > > > I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results > > of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than > > favourable light. > > > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm > > It looks like garbage to me. He doesn't give enough information to > reproduce his results, though I strongly suspect the FreeBSD box > has softupdates disabled, and is therefore going to be slower. > > His writeup isn't even very good. On the initial page he claims > they tested with FreeBSD, but on sidebar #2 he claims they used > OpenBSD. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message