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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Caldera Linux 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 08:39:13 -0700
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>I have been impressed by the performance response of your site, especially 
>since the hardware is a 90MHz Pentium.  The philosophy followed by the 
>development team makes a lot of sense.
>
>Aside from possible religious issues in either of these two camps, are there 
>performance characteristics, supported equipment list, or stability issues 
>that would make FreeBSD the OS of choice over Caldera Linux?

   I don't know if anyone has done a specific performance comparison between
Caldera Linux and FreeBSD, but there have been some comparisons between
FreeBSD and Linux in general. We've worked hard to improve performance in
our current development branch, and most if not all of the commonly used
benchmarks now perform better on FreeBSD than Linux.
   For stability, I think you'll find that the soon to be released FreeBSD
2.1.5 will beat just about any Unix variant (not just Linux) for typical
applications. 2.1.5 is a stability release that is based on the 2.1.0
development branch. It doesn't have some of the performance improvements
that have been made recently, but it still performs exceptionally well -
especially in the area of networking.

>Regarding applications, are you aware of growing ISV support for FreeBSD?  
>Are you aware of any plans by anyone for a SunSoft Wabi port to run Windows 
>apps?  Or something similar to Cadera's Office Suite?

   I'll leave these questions for other people to answer.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project