I appreciate your reply. Seems like MacOS is FreeBSD under the hood. Some say
Yahoo servers (used to) run on FreeBSD.
Read somewhere that BSD is very tolerant towards harware failures (memory
location failures etc).
http://news.netcraft.com/ (shows a lot of linux servers, probably just
hosting?)
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From: Siju George <[email protected]>
To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] [GNU/Linux-discussion] [X] Debian GNU kBSD vs
Linux, PCBSD
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:14 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know it is not suitable for heavy duty scientific computing on R
> (say) ....and others do not recommend it either.
>
Thats why I say your knowledge is limited.
But at least you could have done a "BSDs in scientific computing" in
google before you posted this.
The "others" you mention are equally ignorant.
This is the problem when you are in a GNU/Linux pond.
Just a few URLs to start with.
http://www.freebsdnews.net/2008/04/19/freebsd-clustering/
http://bsdnetwork.co.nr/
In many European Universities BSD is the preferred choice for this
kind of tasks due to their stability.
Just to burst you Linux perfomance Myth.
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-06/msg00042.html
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-06/msg00044.html
This was 3 years back when SMP support was maturing on dragonfly. Now
that dragonfly has much improved scalability it beats Linux in SMP
perfomance too
http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/0436216/dragonfly-bsd-30-released
Earlier a test was done with scientific linux.
It perfomed well but was usless after some time
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg00008.html
I am not putting down linux. I use many distros of it.
But the reality is that while Linux shows good perfomance numbers in
skewed perfomance tests it becomes less and les responsive and it
freezes as load increases where as BSDs keep going providing the
services.
More than 10 years back when I started in this field I too got the
same advice you got. But I tried stuff and found out for myself that
they were false. And I used the right technology for the right purpose
rather than fanatically following a particular crowd and their
opinions.
Have a good day!
--Siju
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