From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 11 16:16: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CAA4032; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:15:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA89799; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:46:09 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:46:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kevin Day Cc: Stanley Hopcroft , FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MS Windows performance Message-ID: <20000212104609.E89378@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200002070413.WAA88587@celery.dragondata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002070413.WAA88587@celery.dragondata.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 6 February 2000 at 22:13:23 -0600, Kevin Day wrote: >> While he talks about TPC benchmarks that substantiate his claims that >> MS NT outperforms Linux , he does *not* quote any. > > See the famous Mindcraft benchmarks, if you want to see one glaring > example of Microsoft winning. To be fair, the tests were conducted in a fair environment, and pointed out to both the Linux and BSD communities that not everything is perfect. Of course, it also gave us an incentive to fix the situation :-) The real question about the Mindcraft benchmarks is "who cares?". The benchmark did not represent a real-life situation. In a corresponding real-life situation (IIRC with dynamic HTML), Linux or FreeBSD will outperform Microsoft. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message