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Byte: FreeBSD vs Linux Revisited
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.
...throw DOS in there. :)
SIGFEH
I think tux is the shittiest mascot ever, while FreeBSD has that cool little devil dude (his name escapes me).
How can anyone take linux seriously if it's got such a pussy and unprofessional mascot? It just screams "one day gimp creation."
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
You used *MANDRAKE* for your servers? Are you nucking futs? Don't get me wrong, it's what I'm using and it's a wonderful distro, but not for servers. It's bloated -- it comes with the kitchen-sink *AND* the kitchen-sink-devel RPMS installed by default, for Pete's sake. For a server, you should run Debian, or Redhat, or Suse. Mandrake? That's for kids and grammas and folks who *ahem* just want to have their TV tuner working out of the box.
Emacs: for people who just never know when to
...for two days now. How odd that it shows up on Slashdot all of a sudden!
While both of us agree that Linux and BSD are great systems, the speed of BSD development, imho, is way too slow for the business environment. Want to do journalling with RAID in BSD? Sorry, you have to use Linux. Until the BSD people can update as quickly as the Linux people, they will not get the market share.
And, before the "but it's more secure" flames come, Linux, when properly patched, can be just as secure. It takes little effort to patch a Linux server, and the advantages of having fault tolerance in your software *and* hardware are tremendous.
And, contrary to popular belief, BSD is not dying either.
As an example of the power of this OS, consider the popular website adequacy.org. Apparently they switched from Linux to FreeBSD, because it can run Scoop up to 40% faster than Linux. (they claimed that Linux's TCP implementation perfomed poorly).
I think Linux needs to take a few leaves from the FreeBSD book, especially in the security arena. FreeBSD is streets ahead of Linux in this crucial area.