Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:15:47 +0200 From: Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com>, Edho Arief <edho@myconan.net> Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server Message-ID: <CAEW%2BogamdH561CNe6KzvGzasNai3NrqJtzEp=ZYL3W7gDLJApg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EF06765.5050107@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4EE1EAFE.3070408@m5p.com> <CAJ-FndDniGH8QoT=kUxOQ%2BzdVhWF0Z0NKLU0PGS-Gt=BK6noWw@mail.gmail.com> <4EE2AE64.9060802@m5p.com> <4EE88343.2050302@m5p.com> <CAFHbX1%2B5PttyZuNnYot8emTn_AWkABdJCvnpo5rcRxVXj0ypJA@mail.gmail.com> <4EE933C6.4020209@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CAPjTQNEJDE17TLH-mDrG_-_Qa9R5N3mSeXSYYWtqz_DFidzYQw@mail.gmail.com> <20111215024249.GA13557@icarus.home.lan> <4EE9A2A0.80607@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CAJ-VmomWnAvsVPcK0mfFECvFw_FKcja1m3NE9ue=TOkF%2Bx14Xg@mail.gmail.com> <CANY-Wm8jbtr3tiwdGQMDx8SVZKEBspGwTV7Q0wziYWsV%2Bf3BSQ@mail.gmail.com> <6140271.20111219122721@serebryakov.spb.ru> <CANY-Wm9-JTN0gvjoRv4XFMDaweoPSoZ4erTUto3Z-s1LxqGzhg@mail.gmail.com> <CABTjkKmRQ-hc2kKpCCrj4AmChXA59ErXeTHnt0oJSTEBFi-apw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPJF9wmgMi6XJrtETmHcv%2BMHP22V4xKkixTqxQYaej6RyViPbQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAMVU60ZRfOG4fCiz30BnAURCLbRgA0bdWjhNkQZnYQkMqB14sA@mail.gmail.com> <4EF06765.5050107@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Hi, I'm not sure i trust allbsd.org, such as their site has last updated at 2005. Sami On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, O. Hartmann < ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/20/11 10:01, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, > you > >> need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just > >> found recently (my shame of course) in mail list that there is service ( > >> pub.allbsd.org) which constantly building current versions. This is > great, > >> but at homepage of freebsd.org there is no word about it :) > > > > That's because it's not official. Do you take the risk? Would a > > multi-milion-dollar company do that? > > For your private server, sure it's probably fine. But how do you know > > that those files are not contaminated? > > (That being said, the purpose of that service is good. And the files > > there a most probably 100% fine. But if it's not official... then..) > > > > Well, then, FreeBSD is with priority for multi-million-euro companies? > > No one knows whether those companies like Suse or similar are not > undermined by the US agencies or those from Telaviv. What about > Microsoft and its funny Zero-Day bugs? Do you trust that company, which > does not give any insight in its code? This shit is even more widespread > in governments, agencies and defence than "real" traitors. > > Even a multi-million-what-so-ever has to decide on their own what to > get, where to get it from and this is obviously not argument NOT giving > such valuable informations the community at hand like pub.allbsd.org. > > For years outdated stuff from a Period when freeBSD 4.X outperformed the > Linux crap is sometimes still present on the FreeBSD pages (luckily, > those has gone after a load of discussion). > > -- Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert
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