Adam Maloney wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > >> Has anybody on this list had a chance to evaluate NetBSD 2.0 on the >> x86 architecture? I am curious to see FreeBSD in turmoil and NetBSD >> exploding onto the scene. I am especially curious to see the >> wonderful performance improvements that they have reported. > > > Turmoil? Other than the new logo fiasco, the only other turmoil I'm > aware of was some troll that was posting to (at least) -users and > -hackers about a benchmark that showed NetBSD was faster in some > regard than FreeBSD, which he took to mean that he should help save > the souls of the poor FreeBSD losers from being stuck on an inferior > OS, by spewing his message to a bunch of mailing lists. FUD FUD FUD! > To my knowledge, those were real benchmarks. As far as FreeBSD goes, they are having a difficult time with 5.x. ULE is broken and they were forced to go back to 4BSD for scheduling. The kernel performance [not sure what benchmarks were used] is much worse with a uniprocessor build due to issues of their incorporation of SMP and giant locking. There are simply a lot of other problems that have made several people ask about fixing 6.x and releasing it as early as the end of the summer. But that wasn't my question at all. My question was simply asking if anybody here has real world experience with NetBSD 2.0. Several users here are Linux users and FreeBSD users and OpenBSD users, so I thought it natural that there might be NetBSD users as well. Tom Veldhouse