On Thu, June 2, 2005 18:47, Neal E. Westfall said: >>> Anybody have any thoughts on this review? >>> >>> http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/2153257&tid=8 >> >> I suggest you provide your thoughts first. > > Well, as I run FreeBSD on older 32-bit hardware, I have not seen some of > the problems the author mentions, so my thoughts on the article will be > somewhat limited. The impression the author gives is that the 4.X branch > was more stable, but it doesn't appear that the author has actually used > the 4.X branch. It probably isn't really a fair comparison anyway, as the > 4.X branch doesn't support the hardware he was trying to use. > > I would have liked to see how a major linux distribution or two would have > fared on the same hardware. I don't think that the reviewer really did > extensive enough testing to be able to render a fair review, as he was > using some pretty bleading edge hardware, and it is not clear from the > review whether linux would have fared much better. > > Then again, as a FreeBSD user myself for a good 15 years or so, I am > probably a little biased towards FreeBSD. Maybe linux is rock-solid on a > 64-bit platform. It appears to be pretty stable at my jobsite, where we > run 64-bit Linux on two Altix servers, but they do freeze up every once in > a while, maybe once every 2-3 months, requiring a hardware reset. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
The same reviewer did a review of OpenBSD a couple of articles previously: http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8 On the whole his experience looked worse than with FreeBSD, but the tone of the OBSD article was more favorable. Anyone else notice this? Jem Matzan just seems to be anti-FreeBSD. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Achean Ltd http://www.achean.com Jon Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
