Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

[Christer Solskogen]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow at gmail.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, you
> need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just
> found recently (my shame of course) in mail list that there is service (
> pub.allbsd.org) which constantly building current versions. This is great,
> but at homepage of freebsd.org there is no word about it :)

That's because it's not official. Do you take the risk? Would a
multi-milion-dollar company do that?
For your private server, sure it's probably fine. But how do you know
that those files are not contaminated?
(That being said, the purpose of that service is good. And the files
there a most probably 100% fine. But if it's not official... then..)

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