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NetBSD 2.0 vs FreeBSD 5.3 Benchmarks
diegocgteleline.es writes "According to OSnews, Gregory McGarry benchmarked NetBSD 2.0 against FreeBSD 5.3 and found that NetBSD 2.0 surpasses FreeBSD 5.3 in most of benchmarks. The machine used for benchmarks is a 3 Ghz P4 so it doesn't reflect the improvements of FreeBSD 5.3 in the SMP arena, which is where their developers have put their efforts in the last years and where NetBSD is still using a "big-lock" model. Newsforge is also carrying a interview with some NetBSD developers about the technology behind NetBSD 2.0."
Correct.
d =11252088, as that person has the same opinion as me.
Your facts are indeed accurate, and I salute the fact that somebody wishes to step up to the Berkeley Software Distribution trolls, but I think I share many Slashdot readers' opinions about many of your repetitve posts. Anybody who regularly visits the Slashdot BSD section knows that there are trolls claiming that the BSD operating system is dying, and that there are websites and common sense to disprove it. We all know of Netcraft's "Nearly 2 Million Active Sites Running FreeBSD" page, so why is there a need to post it multiple times?
Read http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134840&ci
... some actual facts. ;)
FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."
NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)
OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
*BSD in general:
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.
Fuck off, Smorgreff
The name's Shaun - you wrote Shawn. Since in your post you're gratuitously calling a FreeBSD committer an idiot, you'll pardon me if I stopped after the first check, when google (web search) showed nothing.
The fact that I was wrong about the origin doesn't change the fact that this is just a huge load of *destructive* political crap.
Let the facts speak, and say who's right and who's wrong. In this benchmark NetBSD prevails over FreeBSD - good. But it isn't the whole story by any means, since it doesn't measure where FreeBSD is supposed to be stronger.
Projects like FreeBSD, DragonFly, etc. should be judged and compared on the technical level. That's why I think that modding up stuff like this has no justification.