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Byte: FreeBSD vs Linux Revisited

Posted by michael on from the no-holds-barred dept.

Beerwolff writes: "This time I have remembered the link to the Byte article that's a follow-up to two of Moshe Bar's previous articles comparing FreeBSD and Linux--This time with the new Linux VM. His Apache "results show that Linux is better at handling I/O cache than FreeBSD, and that FreeBSD is more efficient at building up and tearing down processes."" As usual, please take benchmarks with a grain of salt, caveat emptor, look before you leap, and so forth.

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  1. FreeBSD and Linux will always complement ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 4, Insightful
    FreeBSD and Linux are always going to complement each other completely. Even though they are based behind two different kernels they are both free as in beer.

    Personally I would use FreeBSD for a server for the sheer fact that I can never crash it. For desktop uses I would definantelly use linux.

    But both of them being free in the same world will always complement each other. The only thing holding FreeBSD back from the desktop is a pretty installer ... though this _might_ count as a desktop varient of FreeBSD ...

    The latest releases of mandrake and redhat are full of wonderful packages and resources that make linux more than a prime candidate for the desktop.

    But Linux and FreeBSD will ALWAYS complement each other ...

    SuperDuG

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  2. Stupid Media Trash by ksw2 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Media loves a good "(X) VERSUS (Y)!" fight. I say fuck them. It's going to depend on the application. Linux users don't use their OS's in the same way the BSD users use theirs.

    Tell one person using OpenBSD that they should use Linux instead because the I/O cache is faster, and they'll tell you to GFY. Likewise if you tell a desktop Redhat 7.2 user that FreeBSD is going to suit him better because of process creation statistics.

    It's just another stupid OS jihad that doesn't matter. People should take a lesson from Linus when people ask him what he thinks of the "competition".

  3. Not a VM benchmark by velco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Note that this is systems benchmark, not a VM one.
    There are a lot more different things in the two
    kernels, than the VM. And note, that the server was
    SMP, an area where FreeBSD folks admit "Linux is a
    year ahead". It may turn out in the end that
    actually the FreeBSD VM performs better, making
    able the Big Lock BSD kernel catch up with more
    fine graned Linux .
    -velco
    Lies, damned lies, statistics

  4. Re:Q: softupdates vs. ext3 by warlock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your argument makes no more sense than the following:

    If journalling is so good, why has BSD not used the same approach?