What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 08 October 2004 11:05 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:54 AM, TM4525 at aol.com wrote:
> > You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is "going to be
> > so great".  I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you
> > don't have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so
> > when its done
> > I'll test it.
>
> I think it sums it up nicely then...
>
> TM is saying he doesn't like people claiming it's going to be great
> when there's no release yet.  Kris posted benchmarks showing things
> have improved and he has reason to believe it will be better.  TM
> replies not with his own benchmarks, but basically saying he refuses
> to test anything until it's released and that no one should claim
> it's better until it's marked as a "release" version.
>
> So conclude by saying that there is reason to believe the next
> version will be better, "Here's why", and that you can have the drawn
> out fight over performance benchmarks up the wazoo after the release
> is actually...well...released.  TM won't be happy until it reaches
> this status anyway so there's no use in arguing it if only
> benchmarking "release" versions is one of the requirements for the
> argument to come to a conclusion.
>
> :-)
>
> -Bart

Well, that and:  "YMMV".

:-)

Andrew Gould