Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:06:39 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Better late than never... The FreeBSD News! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970406160153.2162A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970405230731.16022B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, The Devil Himself wrote: > plus, I've been saving all the FreeBSD vs Linux mails that have come > through the questions list lately; I have a link to them off my home page, Cool, I'll have a look in a minute. > and I can always ... ahem... 'nudge' the results. Although, comparing > FreeBSD to Linux, I don't think the results would even NEED nudging... > :-} Ahh.. weeeeeelllll....... Linux DOES have a lot going for it you know, its not a case of "FreeBSD kicks linux in speed tests, so.. " . For example, check out the ISS patches to the Later 2.x kernels. I've seen some speed comparisons and initially it craps all over a stock standard FreeBSD installation. There are some other (interesting) hacks, eg a patch that (with the right mount option) lets you reference files / directories directly by inode number, speeding up programs like INN and Squid by heaps. Does anyone know of anything in FreeBSD like this? Something you should say in the Linux vs. FreeBSD is the way that the two systems are implemented, ie there isn't "The Linux Distribution" unlike FreeBSD, in Linux ideas flow much more freely and .. well .. I've seen some cool ideas implemented by ugly code. :) I'll start on it tonight, and put it up on a webpage for people to see. Cya -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... <adrian@psinet.net.au> | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)
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