On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:16 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Intel h/w both Debian GNU/kBSD and PCBSD perform pathetically in >> comparison w.r.t Debian /Ubuntu GNU Linux . >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=debian_wheezybsd_freeze&num=1 >> Do see the comments. >> > > Welcome to the real world :-) > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTExNDM >
commercial BSD is not free BSD. And netfix obviously is talking about very specific hardware and requirements. Here we are talking about some other kind of h/w. > > eg: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix_Test_Suite#Controversies > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-December/030323.html > If there are problems with the benchmarking , then they should be rectified. But what other options do we have apart from actually doing it ourselves? Personally I know, free BSD does not perform as well as say Fedora on X86-64 for my requirements :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.in http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
