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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.
Lord knows I'm a voodoo child!
what's with the crazy colors?
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another michael article worthy of -1, flamebait. let the torches loose, this is gonna be hot!
it's not dying
People who use linux have their reasons. People who use BSD have their reasons. After so much hot air, any one who would be converted in either direction by a /. post was converted long ago.
Please let this pointless inane debate die.
...throw DOS in there. :)
SIGFEH
Yeah, it's a shame Linux basically dropped out of the race with the 2.4 kernel that ran swap through the root and then crashed the machine (or killed the init process). I'm not making THAT mistake again! ;-)
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
You can take your package managers and shove them up your ass.
Slackware.
...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.
Yet another crppling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confrmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
FreeBSD is dying....
Linux is dying....
Windows XP kicks ass....
Wh007!
Blah, blah, blah.
Apple vs. Microsoft, God vs. Lucifer, Pepsi vs. Coke. My peepee vs. your peepee!
In the epic 12 round slugfest "The Pope vs. Dalai Lama", we already know who would win.
If you see the Buddha walking down the road, kill him/her. If you see Linus walking down the road, for that matter, kill him too =)