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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4184 alt.folklore.computers:68164 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!ucthpx!not-for-mail From: vincent@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux? Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Date: 23 Nov 1994 09:24:28 +0200 Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3auqnc$bur@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <3am248$7kv@itu1.sun.ac.za> <jsmCzKHK8.Ev1@netcom.com> <3ao31t$9fo@itu1.sun.ac.za> <1994Nov21.000855.124757@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <3atqbj$9u5@muise.hookup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucthpx.uct.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] mike muise (mike@muise.hookup.net) wrote: : Why are you folks being such jerks about this? Getting accurate : information on any religious issue is a non-trivial feat, and : this guy has pulled it off without starting a flame war. He made : the mistake of posting both queries from the same account, but hey, : no one's perfect. Woah! Who said anything about him getting accurate information? He admitted to getting a whole lot of "impressions of a minor flood, a large part of which was just uninformative". Where is this "accurate information"? The best way of getting accurate information is to run the different systems on the *SAME HARDWARE* and doing decent benchmarks. Who better to do this than a "newbie"? Most people already running a system don't want to trash it to test another - it works for them! On the other side, most "newbies" just want to get a system up and running fast, so the chances of someone having run comparison tests are pretty slim and I am sure if results were to be posted they would find their way to anyone who asks - the *first* time. There is of course the problem of "decent benchmarks", but thats another story. :-) : 'Nuff said. Yup. :-) -Russell