From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 19 07:21:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177D3106566B for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:21:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from masoom.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f179.google.com (mail-pz0-f179.google.com [209.85.222.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04F58FC13 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk9 with SMTP id 9so1560381pzk.28 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:21:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rgjI0gCSmcj+E9P97kXbFsZF5pZRVjk2/VtyuhYia74=; b=IXsge51uoEKAKoSkE03leUD82LEekFyNnRlxgfnVsThryTb4Jve8SQcBU3gyb0/Akb GPQkRPdQqiD5U6HL90XC9QrOInFTjhjSDQf5SsNPo4Luyuy+kTvtDgVm1owtHN+kuELT bZgP3ExN0RwagS+g+Ao+inuBUQU7ROiBnNKJw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FyifX85lQhSerdhepfGTrxpb2wihD4EXPCBB9dog/C3VnJ9VVmd1gzQp+COv6SIbna 8vGYuQlCnXH6Gfa4Boc7btVHBtaFiuh/QtNwWlvkveF19CDHL8Lm9cZ4LnP0U8ryFU+h uHc8BrIe8OT3c/NqbK5B1EO8xhVQ+rbssVqK8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.214.21 with SMTP id m21mr2422362wag.213.1266564060801; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:21:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B7DBFA3.7010101@markshroyer.com> References: <87vdduespd.fsf@kobe.laptop> <242758.48200.qm@web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4B7DBFA3.7010101@markshroyer.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:51:00 +0530 Message-ID: From: Masoom Shaikh To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:21:02 -0000 On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Mark Shroyer wrote: > > On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html > > If those numbers are characteristic of the operating system's overall > performance, then that's a really impressive leap forward for NetBSD. > > That said, I use FreeBSD mainly on small, individual servers; as we all > know, there's a lot more that goes into selecting a server OS than raw > performance numbers. =A0Stability, security features (like the ability to > run Apache jailed with whatever random, potentially insecure CGI or PHP > applications one must install), and ease of software installation and > maintenance are important too, and for me FreeBSD excels at these things. > > But between these massive performance improvements, and its mature Xen > compatibility, and the fact that they evicted Sendmail from the base > system in favor of Postfix, NetBSD really has my attention. =A0(In fact > I'm setting up a VM right now so I can get a feel for how NetBSD + > pkgsrc handles as a server.) =A0Now if only it had jails... > > -- > Mark Shroyer > http://markshroyer.com/contact/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" bullets on this slide are particluarly interesting http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img6.html 20 secs from boot loader to GDM prompt 4th bullet is quite not clear what "Unified kernel image for x86" means