[lugm.org] check this weirdness out

[Loganaden Velvindron]

The performance gains that some people claim to be able 
to achieve with freebsd is achieved by offloading to the 
hardware as possible.

Look at freebsd's em(4) driver, it's written by Intel Corporation
and simply included in freebsd without any peer review by the supposed
developers of ``Free'' BSD. For support, you have to complain to
Intel. How much is this different from Windows and proprietary OSes
in practice ? 

See the issues here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-August/044062.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg109076.html

And here's the support that comes from
 freebsd:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html#end
Support section.

The Linux developers have long opposed this practice because it complicate
matters and makes debugging very difficult. (Is it in my code, or in the firmware of 
the ethernet controller ?).

See this:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-28/0029.html

What the Linux people try to do is optimizing their code, while
the freebsd people have taken the lazy approach to improve
performance.

As for the freebsd docs, it's good :-) It's the same as saying
``Microsoft has MSDN, FreeBSD has something similar too !''

I'd largely prefer to trust Linux for running a large volume mail
server, at least I know the developers can fix problems if my 
ethernet controller hangs up (It happened for a production server
at dedibox), instead of trying to get 5% performance gain and limited
support :-)

As I said previously, save yourself the trouble and use GNU/Linux !
//Logan
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--- On Fri, 26/3/10, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:

From: selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [lugm.org] check this weirdness out
To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <discuss at lugm.org>
Date: Friday, 26 March, 2010, 17:53

:) i thought such types of OS wars were long dead :D

but the way i see things :D its out there :D its not telling you to
use it ... well one would discuss about it when he obviously wants to
try it and / or is trying to convince himself :D.

my reasons are simple:
1. Ports
2. Logical
 placement
 of files and /usr/local has some sense.
3. There is a handbook + there's #freebsd :D.
4. There's linux binary compatibility


ps. Amen to ajay :)

pps. Logan did you try the benchmark test i told you with both linux
and FreeBSD for the mails :)

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Jochen Kirstätter <lugm at ios.mu> wrote:
> Are you guys serious?
> Only Windows 7 matters... ;)
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> PS: ToFu removed!
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