Re: The OpenBSD 3.5 Release

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arthur Corliss [mailto:acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org]
>Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2004 08:01 PM
>To: 'W.D.McKinney'
>Cc: aklug@aklug.org
>Subject: 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.

LVM, journaling file system, etc., are needs but newer raid hardware support also.nevaeh-linux or Debian seems to my choices :-)

-Dee

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Received on Sat May 1 12:42:20 2004