Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @07:32AM from the slashing-for-both-teams dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Debian Squeeze release is going to be accompanied by a first-rate kFreeBSD port and now early benchmarks of this port have started coming out using daily install images. The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project is marrying the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland and glibc while making most of the Debian repository packages available for kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64. The first Debian GNU/kFreeBSD benchmarks compare the performance of it to Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.6.30 kernel while the rest of the packages are the same. Results are shown for both i386 and x86_64 flavors. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD may be running well, but it has a lot of catching up to do in terms of speed against Linux."

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iPod/iPhone/OSX/etc by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-20 08:21 · Score: -1, Troll

BSD is not dying, it is LINUX that is dying. On the desktop, it is nearly dead, on servers it is starting to lose out badly to Windows 2008 and OpenSolaris, and in embedded work, BSD is eating its lunch. All of this can be put down to one thing and one thing only: the zealous use of the communistic GPL license that takes away freedom from everyone.