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Open Source OS Benchmarking Competition
BenchmarkingFreak writes "OSnews is running a story about a new benchmarking competition: OSU Open Source Lab wanted to take the concept of benchmarking a little bit further with the Beaver Challenge 2004. In this competition they will be allowing a community of experts in each OS to tweak their configurations to ensure maximum performance. And they are running it all on wicked machines, just imagine... well you know."
First a story about screws, now a story about beavers. Apparently the /. crew had a slow weekend.
Mandrake is more of a "user friendly" distro then a performance optimized distribution. Someone might add Mandrake to the list, but it's not as tightly configured as say Gentoo and I can't imagine what purpose it would be to add it to the competition except for just representation.
If they really wanted to make it a good competition, they would award beaver to the winner. That would get them fired up.
If Linux wins, the BSD snobs will have a field day babbling and flaming about how unfair the contest was.
Sure buddy. And if Santy Claus comes a-jumping down the chimney, you'll get the BB gun you always wanted.
This is clearly a plot by Microsoft and SCO to destroy OSS! They couldn't beat any one of us, but if they get us to fight each other...
Dude, I know you're not supposed to read the story, but at least read the text you quoted.
This list is not final and if people want to ante in to try this with their favorite distro, let us know at bc2004 at osuosl dot org or in #beaverchallenge on the Freenode.net IRC network.
Note what's implied...
Please help metamoderate.
That would never happen, because Windows would win, and the OSS adovcates would never want you to know that.
-Ted
-=-=- Quantum physics - the dreams stuff are made of.
"In this competition they will be allowing a community of experts in each OS to tweak their configurations to ensure maximum performance."
I can see it now, teams of KDE and GNOME developers going head to head to see who can come up with the best color scheme, antialiased fonts, and 'Are you sure you want to delete this?' dialog box. Followed by Round 2, where each group has to compile something built for the other camp's desktop, whoever can fight through the dependencies quicker wins!
Lord Linus, save us from OSNews.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
That's what I'm waiting for. I'm a champ!
Oh, man. Didn't you RTFA? Eugenia Loli-Queru is the head judge. After all the intensive speed-tweaking and optimization, the whole thing will be judged based on the colors used in the default theme. Extra points if it looks like BeOS.
[note to the humor-impaired: it's funny; laugh. I happen to really like BeOS]
just imagine... well you know.
What?
Just imagine what?
A Beowulf cluster of Beavers?
This contest is blatantly set up so that Gentoo, the obvious victor in a fair benchmarking contest, cannot win.
They are only allowing three days to set up the OS, everyone knows that you can't get gentoo installed, much less customized in that time.
What I want to know is where is Emacs :-)
"Open source" has taken on a whole new meaning since Hustler got involved...
bytesmythe
Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
-- Scott Meyer
Bogomips
'nuff said.