Re: [Nolug] Re: OS Challenge Tonight @ LSU

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:26, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> I saw the benchmarks, and it was very informative.
>
> Please don't confuse me as a zealot, my comments were more of a tongue in
> cheek thing. I was mainly sending that in case anyone was interested in
> going to it. I can't make it, but I wish I could...

Are you taking about this? http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

OpenBSD-CURRENT fared pretty badly.

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:06:06 +0000, "Joey Kelly" <joey@joeykelly.net>
> said:
> > Gaa... your stuff keeps getting tagged as spam :-(
> >
> > Um, the only thing I'd mention is to keep cool about *BSD. I use NetBSD
> > on
> > occasion, and think it's great. I can find reasons to prefer it over
> > Linux,
> > too, but
> >
> > 1). No one besides geeks has even heard of it. Who are we trying to
> > attract?
> > People are at least beginning to hear about Linux.
> >
> > 2). BSD is *nix. Linux is a *nix clone. Fundamentally, they both work the
> > same. *Nix is better than windows. I tend to treat BSD and Linux the same
> > (free *nix OSs that are way better in most respects to windows). Getting
> > picky about BSD is almost the same as getting picky about which Linux
> > distro
> > to us. What's the point? Those kinds of arguments tend to turn off a lot
> > of
> > people. If you want a distro that's as secure as BSD, run debian or
> > slack. if
> > you want a portage-type install, use gentoo (or NetBSD's pkgsrc, which
> > has
> > been ported to debian, OSX and slowlaris). There is nothing inherently
> > superior about BSD as opposed to Linux, when you get down to it. Hey, 2.6
> > is
> > even faster than FreeBSD, anyhow (seen the story on slashdot this week?).
> > Personally, I detest redhat, but a few noluggers swear by it. We're all
> > about
> > choice, remember?
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