Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:58:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@hamell.hpc1.com> Cc: bitter@noah.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need comparative data Message-ID: <19990803115842.L62948@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990801072402.18108B-100000@heorot.hamell.hpc1.com>; from Rick Hamell on Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 07:27:54AM -0700 References: <67650953.933580567520.JavaMail.nobody@shell5.ba.best.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990801072402.18108B-100000@heorot.hamell.hpc1.com>
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On Sunday, 1 August 1999 at 7:27:54 -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > >> Newbie Q:"What's the difference between Linux and FreeBSD?" >> Guru A:"It all depends on what you want and even if I knew >> the answer I would not tell you because I refuse to >> lower myself by getting involved in a religious OS war." > > Obviously you've not read enough....:) Most all the messages I see > go like this; > > Newbie; Why is FreeBSD Linux better? > Guru; FreeBSD is not Linux it's based off of the BSD operating > system while Linux is based off the System V/Minix system. Well, let's say that Minix inspired Linux. Under the skin, BSD is closer to System V than Linux is to either. See my last two articles in Daemon News (http://www.daemonnews.org/199906/d-advocate.html and http://www.daemonnews.org/199908/d-advocate.html). > They're both good operating systems, but FreeBSD is better for > servers, high loads and general networking while Linux is good for > the desktop. This is a popular opinion which is IMO unfounded. Yes, FreeBSD appears to handle high loads better (the Gartner Group report that somebody referred to suggests 40% more throughput), but you've got to be careful with any kind of benchmark. Microsoft has found an area where it can prove that NT beats the hell out of either FreeBSD or Linux. It's not a typical application, needless to say, but it goes to show that you need to be very careful in what you state. > But, FreeBSD runs most Linux programs faster then Linux itself. I haven't seen any evidence of this. User bound Linux programs run at exactly the same speed under Linux as under FreeBSD; other programs may run faster or slower, but in general expect the performance to be the same. > It's also being developed by professional software engineers (for > the most part,) while Linux is really being developed by a bunch of > high school and college kids with little real-world programming > experience. That may have been true about Linux once, but I don't think you can claim that any more. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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