Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 28th Sep 2009 18:21 UTC, submitted by Michael
Phoronix was kind enough to add a deliciously lengthy nine-page compare and contrast between FreeBSD 8 and Ubuntu 9.10 to their arsenal of articles. "Canonical will be releasing Ubuntu 9.10 at the end of next month while the final release of FreeBSD 8.0 is also expected within the next few weeks. With these two popular free software operating systems both having major updates coming out at around the same time, we decided it warranted some early benchmarking as we see how the FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 performance compares. For looking more at the FreeBSD performance we also have included test results from FreeBSD 7.2, the current stable release. In this article are mostly the server and workstation oriented benchmarks with the testing being carried out on a dual AMD Opteron quad-core workstation."
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2006-12-28
I can see where you are coming from and would agree, if we where talking about auto mobiles, but we aren't. We are talking essentially about calculations per second.
I agree that scalability is a factor when dealing with heavy loads but if your system is slow to begin with, it makes no difference how many more users you throw at it. It still crawls. Sure, it might crawl less than a system that is not optimized for high I/O but it still crawls.
All systems have limits, and some of these limits can be increased at the expense of others. This is a standard issue when dealing with system optimization. The bottoms line though is always that if one part of the system is significantly below par, it will drag the rest down.
We are not talking about different types of fuel, they both run on electricity in the end. We are also not talking about different types of engines, they where tested on the same hardward. I have always had the impression that FreeBSD scales horizontally (as in SMP) better than Linux, but frankly what does that serve you if your system crawls?