From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 28 19:07:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12408106566C; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:07:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB1C8FC08; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwc9 with SMTP id 9so3660563qwc.13 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:07:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Kghz4naCP0t6lwGhVWpMZLj6Pbgb5RN4Ntq5ZDniaJM=; b=J5/JDTmn+/Erb+w67Omx7UPRB+YrK4CzvV49RvwWfzR/ylVZ/NAcxJ5bejCAc0GHFX zEwucSPwLKknxq0x2V6rzxPHumSpgk57U2NIijngpvXLWBIN9rdmNUyr1YEkAKnjWiCl refeNpzHVUf66RX4hOib1JSk9k6tnhjkhNbes= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.197.130 with SMTP id ek2mr596008qab.129.1314558461962; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.19.131 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:07:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110828184758.GA1189@tiny> References: <4E5941D6.9090106@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20110828184758.GA1189@tiny> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:07:41 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Matthias Apitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Chris Rees , "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" , freebsd Current , "Hartmann, O." Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:07:43 -0000 On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Sunday, August 28, 2011 a las 07:27:49PM +0100, Chris Rees escri= bi=F3: > >> On 27 August 2011 20:32, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Hartmann, O. >> > wrote: >> >> This website should be brushed up or taken offline! >> >> It seems full of vintage stuff from glory days. >> >> >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html >> > >> > Agreed. Things have changed quite a bit in the last decade. >> >> It reads rather FUD-like too. > > It's a pitty that the comments until now are only general like "full of > vintage stuff", "agreed", "rather FUD", but without concrete critics or > proposals of changes of wrong data. Ok then: 1. It's out of date (the obvious). This comes down to some of the information being completely incorrect as far as featuresets, and just looks embarrassing in other respects because it's using Windows 2000 as a comparison (it's a 10 year old OS). 2. Broken links. 3. The smiley icons are very unprofessional. 4. There's a lot of wasted horizontal space on the webpage. 5. There's no data to back up some of the claimed observations (what version of FreeBSD, Linux, Windows were used; what performance metrics were obtained; how things were tuned; etc). 6. Some of the data (example: the SQL error text under "Performance" in the Windows column) is in the wrong spot, s.t. it distracts readers. If anything it belongs in the footnotes. 7. The breakdown is too terse. Execs and business types like looking at bullet points; the technical folks like looking at things in more gross detail. Thanks, -Garrett