Re: The OpenBSD 3.5 Release

On Sat, 1 May 2004, W.D.McKinney wrote:

> How sweet it is...http://www.openbsd.org/35.html
>
> Have fun !

It'll be interesting to see if this OS can actually hold up for once under
load. As much as I was a fan of thier security record I was very disappointed
to see that it leaks memory like a sieve, has horrible I/O performance, and in
general was unreliable. Remember this embarrasing comparison:

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:0n5TgSYXC7QJ:bulk.fefe.de/scalability/+Linux+FreeBSD+OpenBSD+scalability%5C&hl=en

Looks like if you want reliability and scalability, you go for FreeBSD. Linux
is nipping at the heels, though, and it has (in my eyes) a big advantage in
storage with LVM and journaling filesystems.

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Received on Sat May 1 12:00:31 2004