[huskerlug] Re: From Linux to FreeBSD: A FreeBSD Review - OSNews.com

  • From: "Jim Worrest" <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:35:45 +0000

Steve wrote:

>>>     I would suggest you read the comments with the
>>>articles,  I found installing=20
>>>FreeBSD challenging.   I regret I took it off the
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>>>http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3D5106
>>>=20
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> FreeBSD used to have some real advantages over Linux, especially under heavy 
> load and the TCP/IP stack performance.  Matt Dillon did an excellent job with 
> the FreeBSD VM.  Where Linux would often thrash under extremely high loads 
> and become unresponsive (to the point that you couldn't even log in), FreeBSD 
> would just chug along slowly but surely.  However, from about 2.4.18ish on, 
> the Linux VM has really come into its own and works quite well.  Also, the 
> 2.4.x, the TCP/IP stack has improved significantly over the 2.2 series and 
> provides some stiff competition for FreeBSD.
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> Since the 2.6 kernel implements Rik's rmap VM code, it really flies even 
> under 
> heavy loads (Rik has conversed with Matt about VM performance).   Several of 
> the distro's backported this code to the 2.4 kernel (Suse, Redhat, 
> Gentoo...), so many have already seen the benefits of it.
>  
> I haven't seen any recent benchmarks, but I doubt FreeBSD has these same 
> advantages over Linux that it used to have.  FreeBSD is a great OS, and is 
> still constantly improving just like Linux, but it doesn't have as large of a 
> developer community as Linux and thus doesn't tend to progress as quickly.
> 
> Steve
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        Well, I haven't seen any bench marks for the later stuff, though 
FreeBSD seemed to have handled a low memory computer better than my 
Linux did.
        The BSDers have a philosophy something akin to the big Linux outfits, 
that of having a very stable release, which is their 4x series at the 
moment, and their cutting edge, the 5x series doesn't have that much 
blood dripping from it's edge as some Linux distros do.
        I hope to have Linux, FreeBSD, and that unmentionable OS all on one 
computer in the near future.  FreeBSD, was/is suppose to have about the 
same nubmer of packages as RedHat and with Apple using it as the basis 
for it's OS, it could see some spurt in growth.
        Anyway, I want something to fall back on, with RedHat getting out of 
the desktop market and my old favorite SuSE might be doing the same 
thing, I want something than that unmentionable OS to use.   ---Jim


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