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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Message-ID: <jmonroyCxG277.1ML@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <jmonroyCx10D8.3yu@netcom.com> <378hjr$c4@knobel.gun.de> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 06:33:06 GMT Lines: 65 Andreas Klemm (andreas@knobel.gun.de) wrote: : Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote: : : Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote: : : : 3) faster : : : : : Again, no benchmarks (or stats) are available for : : any of the above. Numbers generated depend heavily : : on equipment used and application (program) design. : How can you say that Jesus ?! Very poorly investigated ! : German magazine: iX, 06/94 Review "BSD PC Unix" : BSD/386 1.1 in comparison with FreeBSD 1.1gamma. 5 pages. : General description and the benchmarks: SSBA, bonnie. : The SSBA and the bonnie benchmark show also values of a Linux System, : that was installed exactly on the same hardware as the BSD systems. : Worthless benchmarks and you know it. I could publish daily reports on how fast 386bsd is in comparision to say, Novell servers.... doen't prove diddly... At best the magazine you're quoting says that "when they did the test, with their machines under thier conditions.... they got xYZ results." Be real get a life. : : : 7) platform for programming. : : : : : Linux, at this time, has the serious lead in documentation. : : By my book, even the best tricks are just that, if you : : dont' know how to use them. : BSD is a standard. So there's a lot of documentation around in : a very good quality. : If you think a bunch of contorted thirty year old man pages based on outdated code is documentation, you must be kidding. : Since 4.4 BSD Lite was introduced and Usenix / O'Reilly offer : very nice books about 4.4 BSD it's out of question, that BSD : docu is available in high quality, too. : That to me sound like a good joke... When you're done with your edition of XYZ how to BSD give me a call. : Manual pages are in general more complete and more up to : date than in the rapidely changing Linux environment. : I guess your planning on using stone knives and bear skin clothing for a while. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________