From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 9 16:23:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04489 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04483 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA04763; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:52:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA03856; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:52:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:52:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jan B. Koum " Cc: Owen Barnett , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990110105255.C1743@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990108230358.A19973@best.com> <19990109212815.B1743@freebie.lemis.com> <19990109035423.A13514@best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990109035423.A13514@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 03:54:23AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog 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-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 9 January 1999 at 3:54:23 -0800, Jan B. Koum wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:28:16PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 23:03:58 -0800, Jan B. Koum wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:52:09AM -0600, Owen Barnett wrote: >>> But you are right - FreeBSD wins in the performance area >>> no questions asked. >> >> I disagree. I would ask questions, or at least answer implied >> questions. There's been enough unpleasantness between the *BSDs in >> the past; we don't want to start that again with a number of >> unqualified statements, even if they should be correct. > > You do not think FreeBSD is better in the performance > area? This is a simple yes or no question. :) Performance is *never* a simple yes/no question. Look at all the contradictory benchmark evidence out there. Personally, I have no experience with OpenBSD, so I can't evaluate its performance. If you have experience, you haven't mentioned it. Greg -- 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-chat" in the body of the message