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Benchmarks of *BSD, Linux, and Solaris at LinuxTag

Posted by Nik on from the unbiased-hmm dept.

AnonymousCow writes "At LinuxTag, an unbiased comparison of performance of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, and Solaris." I'll let Tim's comment on this story stand: "Unbiased is hard to claim - all tests can be seen as biased in their formulation - but this is thorough, with 45 slides and well-explained methodology -- BSD does very well ..."

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  1. No need to be snotty... by slothbait · · Score: 5

    > FreeBSD... The choice of those, who know how to choose...

    You sound like a few wine snobs I know.

    FreeBSD may have it's technical merits, but I know plenty of people who run it just for the "fringe appeal". These are the people that ran Slackware way back because it seperated them from the crowd.

    After the Red Hat IPO, Linux officially arrived and was no longer properly counter-culture. Once big money was involved, Linux became establishment, and that's just not chic. Then the people who ran Linux just to be different had to look for a new system -- luckily for them, the BSD's provide an easy migration. (yes, I know that BSD dates back to before Linux)

    I feel some of this effect myself. I confess that part of why I use Debian is to seperate myself from the kids who purchased a RH boxed set at CompUSA, clicked their way through an install and now proudly play Solitaire in Gnome.

    In the old days it *did* mean something to hack together a functional system from the disk sets that Slack provided, or that you downloaded by hand. There was a base level of proficiency that was necessary even to become a Linux user. This exclusion is rapidly breaking down in the Linux world, but lives on in the BSD world.

    I'm not sure that any of the BSD's want to lower the entry barrier. Arguments of elitism aside, lowering the barrier definately lowers the mean competence of your user base, and I think that's something FreeBSD and the others would rather live without.

    It seems to me that a lot of the *BSD users on Slashdot just wait around for good news about their system so that they can triumphantly reveal how superior their tastes are. It gets a little old.

    FreeBSD... Because Linux just isn't leet enough anymore.

    --Lenny