[rescue] Re: FSCKing OpenBSD!

[Torquil MacCorkle III]

If you visit an obscure website called google.com and type in "SMP in
Freebsd vs SMP in Linux" you will find thousands of hits from both sides
which agree that Linux SMP for the time being is better. Please note that I
never once said anything about OpenBSD and NetBSD's SMP because i am not
very experienced with them.

> Is there any chance that we'll ever eradicate the blind OS flamewars here?
> They aren't doing anybody any good, really.

No.
Neither are people blasting others when they actually aren't sure of the
facts themselves.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Novak" <rnovak at indyramp.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: [rescue] Re: FSCKing OpenBSD!


> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, George Adkins wrote:
>
> > > I like FreeBSD on intel mainly because, being the most popular
BSD(unless
> > > you count OS-X), it has the most application support.... which
apparently
> > > is a good thing.
> > >
> > Whoops, check fire there...
> > Take a look at NetBSD.
> > it supports WAY more machines than FreeBSD, be careful before you make
the
> > mistake of calling FreeBSD 'more popular'.
>
> So "more machines" means "more popular"? I'm beginning to feel myself
> slipping toward the drug references here.
>
> I think in the commercial application world, FreeBSD is more common and
> more "popular" on the platforms it is released on than NetBSD or OpenBSD.
> This is the point you are trying (and failing) to argue against.
>
> I've heard of more high volume real-world servers that use FreeBSD than
> use either of the other two.  Number of platforms doesn't equate with
> popularity or pervasiveness. And no, one OS being more popular than
> another in certain niches doesn't mean the others aren't good or usable.
>
> Solaris runs on only two platforms (Intel and SPARC) these days, but I bet
> it's on many more production servers than any *BSD. Does that mean it's
> less popular? Hey, it even has its own pile of blindly flaming bigot twit
> fans like every other OS.
>
> And if you have evidence that the SMP support for Intel hardware in any
> released version of NetBSD or OpenBSD is more mature or reliable than the
> SMP support for Intel hardware in FreeBSD, I'd like to see it. I wouldn't
> mind trying another BSD on this quad-Pentium 166 Dell I just got, but for
> now it will probably get FreeBSD 4.5.
>
> Is there any chance that we'll ever eradicate the blind OS flamewars here?
> They aren't doing anybody any good, really.
>
> Rob
>
> --
> Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com *
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