On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Edwin Linux Fan wrote:
..
> Performance:
> - Server: Faster than Linux (PHP,MySQL,Apache)
> - KDE: Faster than Linux
> - Disc access: Faster than Linux
> built in Journaling File System
Where did you get these gems? by my own measurements, FreeBSD is SLOWER
overall than Linux, although more stable. And the FS is NOT journaling --
it's a standard UFS with synchronous metadata (same effect as journaling,
but not as fast).
Saying that KDE is faster on FreeBSD is very iffy. It's hard to quantify
GUI performance.
Disk access: how did you measure? bonnie? iozone? give us some figures,
otherwise your claims are baseless (I *had* some figures showing that
Linux is faster).
..
> Compatibility:
> - Netscape 4.76 Flawless
> - VNC Viewer runs
> - StarOffice 5.2 runs
Yeah, but I'd bet you wouldn't want to trust your business running Oracle
8iR3-EE under Linux emulation, would you?
> My Conclusion:
> - Server, da best!
> - Security, da best!
The OpenBSD people would take major issue with that claim..
> - Desktop, if the BSD people put their minds to it,
> and since KDE and Gnome is generic to unix,
> Desktop could be on par with the best of Linux.
No. Important to the desktop is the presence of DRIVERS. Why do you think
I'm NOT using FreeBSD? (aside from the convenience of Red Hat init scripts
-- have you seen the BSD init setup? yeah it's simple, but it lacks
flexibility). It's because there are no drivers for a lot of things:
The 3dfx Voodoo3 won't do DRI on FreeBSD, because FreeBSD doesn't have the
Direct Rendering Manager kernel module. The Aureal Vortex2 only supports 8
audio channels for playback and 1 for record on FreeBSD (using the Linux
binary-only driver in a hackish emulation mode) whil Linux supports 96
devices, mix and match playback and recording.
I could go on and on.. but the bottom line is, for the DESKTOP Linux beats
all the other PC UNIXes due to the drivers. And for the server.. he he. I
haven't seen FreeBSD for ia64 or S/390.
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