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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!usenet From: Axel Boldt <boldt@math.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 04 Feb 1997 20:55:10 -0800 Organization: Univ of California at Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics Lines: 26 Sender: boldt@emile Message-ID: <ywtvi87rgwh.fsf@math.ucsb.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <5cdqos$e6k@camel1.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <32F788CE.7DA1@indy.celebration.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: emile.math.ucsb.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156463 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82606 comp.os.linux.setup:95731 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2295 "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net> writes: > If you are comparing a FreeBSD V2.1 kernel with Linux 2.X, you'll > find that Linux is faster in many ways. FreeBSD V2.1 is of the > Linux 1.2.X vintage, and we sorely need to release a 2.2 kernel > (which outperforms Linux in some important and not so important > ways.) Run benchmarks of your choice and you'll see. [...] > Of course, the main reason for upgrading is for performance and > stability, You just admitted above that the current released version of Linux is faster than the current released version of FreeBSD, so "performance" is a vaporware argument. Higher "stabilitiy" of FreeBSD is often claimed and never proven, (and also hard to disprove), but I would guess that it is very likely a leftover from Linux 1.0.x days. One thing that is easily measurable though is the much wider hardware support of Linux, better documentation and personal user support, and the larger variety of Linux based "fun" experimental projects. Maybe FreeBSD 2.2 will come out faster if its developers spend more time on the kernel mailing lists and less on advocacy groups. Axel