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Date:      Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:04:09 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
Cc:        advocacy@freebsd.org, sellis@telus.net
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: web write-up]
Message-ID:  <3E1C9249.551D6932@mindspring.com>
References:  <3E1C8287.1020506@mac.com>

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paul beard wrote:
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:53:05 -0800
> From: Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net>
> Hello freebsd-questions,
> 
>    I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results
>    of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than
>    favourable light.
> 
>    http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm
> 
>    Please CC any replies as I am not currently subscribed.


This is a very old article.  All it demonstrates that the software
that was used in the statistics gathering was written with bad
assumptions by people who did not know how to make code run fast
anywhere but Linux.

This was discussed to death when the article first came out, in
January, 2 years ago.

-- Terry

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