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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4c9mgk$3ji@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4bs4cu$mkm@gandalf.compumedia.com> <4bthbq$mfp@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4c8o00$p5e@news1.halcyon.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 22:16:52 GMT Lines: 30 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31511 alt.os.linux:6722 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11181 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1674 In article <4c8o00$p5e@news1.halcyon.com>, Tim Smith <tzs@coho.halcyon.com> wrote: >David E. O'Brien <obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote: >>Once again we have ignorance about FreeBSD. The reason for slower driver >>development isn't because of the structured development nature of FBSD. >>RATHER it is because FBSD has a smaller user base, and thus a smaller >>number of people that have weird hardware and gets a hair up their ass to >>write a driver for it. There is NOTHING stopping Joe User from writing a > >Your theory can be seen to be bull by simply noticing that FreeBSD >driver development slowness is not limited to weird hardware. > Yep -- but the same problems have existed/do exist in other OSes -- even Linux (take a look at the 2940 driver, isn't it kind-of buggy?) These partisan comments really tend to decrease the credability of the various user bases. I probably run Linux as often (and more recent versions) than many Linux users, and I am a FreeBSD core team member. I do competitive analysis runs fairly often. Right now, Linux appears to be in the performance "catch-up" mode. But we also have been working on some substantial performance improvments, with some fairly innovative changes. Hopefully, I'll have them committed to FreeBSD in a few weeks. (towards the end of Jan.) I have been load testing and verifying my new mods. BTW, My guess is that David's definition of "wierd" probably implies low-end -- and since FreeBSD shines in high performance/high load applications, that is where the efforts have been concentrated. John Dyson dyson@freebsd.org