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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:53:45 -0700
From:      "Marc Eckhert" <meckhert@ucla.edu>
To:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ...
Message-ID:  <000001bff5f4$50fb8730$91092104@esp>
In-Reply-To: <20000725031252.20646.cpmta@c014.sfo.cp.net>

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Slashdot just posted an article that does some comparisons between FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD and some Linux distros.  Hope this helps.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/24/1938227&mode=thread

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ...


looks like someone has read your mind already :)

this was posted on slashdot
http://innominate.org/%7Etgr/slides/performance/

it compares OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, and a
couple others I believe.

That what you're looking for?

Daryl Chance

On Mon, 24 July 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Adam wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Morning all ...
> > >
> > >    I have this box sitting around idle right now ... 1Gig of RAM,
> > >several 9 gig scsi hard drives ... no OS.
> > >
> > >    I'm going to install FreeBSD 4.x on it this afternoon and want to
> > >run a load of tests on it and save the results ... benchmark the disk
I/O,
> > >memory, SMP capabilities, network I/O, etc ... basically, I want to
> > >compare the two OSs on the exact same hardware, and see how they
compare
> > >...
> > >
> > >    but I need suggestions on what software I should be running for
> > >doing the benchmarking ... it has to be apples to apples
> > >... iozone-freebsd vs iozone-solaris, etc ...
> > >
> > >    Since there doesn't appear to be one already, I'll compile my
> > >results and put them up on a web page for everyone to see and comment
upon
> > >...
> >
> > Is that legal?  Check the license for Solaris..
>
> D'oh ... never thought about that, but now that you do mention it, most
> likely it isn't *sigh*  God, I hate commercial software :(
>
> Welp, there goes that plan ... inhouse use only :(
>
>
>
>
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