http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 30 August 2011 13:13, Hartmann, O. <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 08/30/11 09:29, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 29 August 2011 21:58:29 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>>>
>>> 27.08.2011 22:13, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This website should be brushed up or taken offline!
>>>> It seems full of vintage stuff from glory days.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html
>>>
>>> I think this one would better look like list of major features with os
>>> comparison, like:
>>>
>>> = Networking =
>>>   * IPv6: major support, best stack around.
>>>   * SCTP: full kernel implementation, still no userland support (i.e.
>>> ssh doesn't work over sctp by default yet).
>>>
>>> = Data storage =
>>>   * ZFS: full support, datasets, compression, dedup, other stuff. Linux
>>> has LVM (?features...) and btrfs (?unstable.. ?features..), Windows has
>>> dynamic disks since XP (?features).
>>>
>>> = SMP =
>>>   * (?something about comparing other shedulers with SCHED_ULE), (?some
>>> rt stuff), (?some comparison with other interesting shedulers, like
>>> DragonflyBSD and QNX).
>>>
>> And USB. I believe there are significant changes in the USB subsystems
>> which
>> those who are making performance benchmarks completely fail to mention.
>>
>> --HPS
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>
> What's about DTrace?
>
> = Development/System Profiling =
>  * DTrace: Some notes of the Kernel Gurus what this could mean for
> performance profiling and development
>
> = Licensing Model =
>  * Some striking comments on the advantage for companies or interested
> people of the BSD-like licensing model over the GPLv3 on which Linux is
> based now and which has serious implications for those who wants to develop
> and sell software developed on/with GNU stuff. it would be very honest, if
> we do not only emphasize only the pros. BSD came from the academic
> environment, that was where I met it the first time and I appreciated the
> way things were developed and 'sloppyness' was a nogo. So we should keep it
> up and a serious and honest set of contraru points for all compared OS
> should be appreciable.
>
>
> Does the VM of FreeBSD still have advantges (measurable) over Linux?

[Taking random email.]

I think we could merge the $subj web page with this one (which is
more actual, as of 7.0): http://www.freebsd.org/features.html

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