Rick, I hope you are joking, right? Orlando was right about the different goals of the *BSD's, but then proceeded to trash them inaccurately.
As for "performance"... OpenBSD tunes it's performance for different tasks than FreeBSD, which tunes for different tasks than NetBSD. And Linux tunes just about everything. In many areas Linux is "faster". this ignores the true beauty of BSD... it's full complement of manpages, it's WELL WRITTEN man pages which are actually helpful, it's tight knit integration which even Debian hasn't been able to match, it's commitment to making sure a sysadmin can gaurantee that every binary on his system was generated from source that is on the system, and that he compiled himself, and all without creating any sort of a mess. Or how about install times. I install OpenBSD in about 15 minutes. It is fast and easy to configure as well. OpenBSD isn't without holes, but it's not "old and out of date". It has fixed a lot of bugs and misfeatures that Linux still has. Instead of adding whole new frameworks and "features" all over the place, BSD looks hard at what it already does, then adds support in a few key places so that suddenly the current, time-honored Unix infrastructure DOES do what was needed... And further, the new features just "feel right". One new BSD feature is often equivalent to one hundred new Linux features, because of the distributed nature of Linux and how support for new things propagates outward in Linux. In short, BSD does more with less. Jonathan On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:26:24AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: >> The truth is, most people who've actually TESTED the two show that Linux >> with a 2.4 kernel is just as fast or even faster than FreeBSD 4/5. The >> other BSD's lag FreeBSD in performance (e.g. OpenBSD isn't even SMP >> capable). > >Orlando, that was so exhaustive and well-written that I'd like to borrow >it. I've put a copy at >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/bsd-comparison , and will use >it as a reference, unless you object. -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2
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