From: Gerrit Huizenga <gerrit@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Another Mindcradt case?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:49:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102062349.f16Nnsu20115@eng2.sequent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:36:45 PST. <3A808A8D.A83784F5@eventdriven.org>
It sure seems like this was a roughly fair comparison by friendlies,
as opposed to a de fecto, closed-source, self-perpetuating propoganda
machine out to steam roll possible competition. Seems like it should
be responded to in the spirit of open source: COOL! So what was
broken in Linux/BSD and what technology did BSD/Linux use to fix it
that we can share?
End result could be to make them both better than any closed, proprietary,
over-large corporate product offering.
And, keep in mind that comparisons usually indicate that there are some
flaws - even if the flaw is that the user's weren't able to set up a
system that worked for them. The key is to find and fix the flaws as
they are exposed.
Just my $0.03.
gerrit
> Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:27:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig said:
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:25:10PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> > > > Moshe Barr is claiming on Byte that sendmail and mysql are 30%
> faster on
> > > > FreeBSD than Linux 2.4. Now given that I don't think that mysql is
> spending
> > > > 30% of its time in kernel mode there are not many ways FreeBSD can
> be 30%
> > > > faster.
> > >
> > > As he has not even documented all the parameters: Ignore him.
> > >
> >
> > The fact he doesn't give all parms doesn't mean Linux could not have a
> > performance problem. And one thing is sure we have a propaganda
> problem
> > since the BSD people will mention this for ten years. So better to solve
> both
> > problems than ignoring them.
> >
> > JF Martinez
> >
> >
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> In all due fairness the propaganda out there is overwhelmingly in favor of
> Linux.
> Not to mention that its user base is close to 10x that of *BSD.
>
> -Kip
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-06 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-06 20:25 Jean Francois Martinez
2001-02-06 20:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-06 23:23 ` Jean Francois Martinez
2001-02-06 23:36 ` Kip Macy
2001-02-06 23:49 ` Gerrit Huizenga [this message]
2001-02-07 0:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-06 23:49 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-06 22:02 ` Roger Larsson
2001-02-06 22:59 ` Jean Francois Martinez
2001-02-06 23:22 ` Rik van Riel
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