Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:00:00 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: from -chat, Re: Mindcruft ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990507135337.7628W-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpbtfwkfpp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 7 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> writes: > > I wonder how we could get in on this fun ... > > > > http://www.mindcraft.com/openbenchmark.html > > > > I'm sure that 3.1-STABLE or some other variant could compete quite well at > > this little game ... > > No. Don't you get it? The game is rigged. Mindcraft gets big money > from Microsoft for doing these tests and making sure NT comes out on > top. It's risky, but since they are allowing the "Linux experts" access to the machines to do tuning, and the benchmark specifications are sort of "open". Although it gives me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, I don't really see how this could be "rigged". I don't think this should be so easily dismissed, some of FreeBSD's finest should look into doing this. Not only would they get fame, but so would the project... *cough* DG *cough* :) I'm not saying it _should_ be done because I don't have enough knowledge about FreeBSD tuning to compete in such an event, I'm just saying someone *cough* David *cough* might want to look into it. If played right it could put FreeBSD in _quite_ a good spot... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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