Performance v.s. Quality

Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 6, 2005 21:06 UTC (Sun) by emkey (guest, #144)
In reply to: Performance v.s. Quality by cventers
Parent article: FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0

>> haha are you serious? these installations are so tweaked they bear little resemblance to your Gentoo box.

You're showing a fair amount of ignorence here as another poster has already pointed out. In my experience (And yes, I do have have extensive experience with several Linux systems in the current top 500.) the only differences between the Linux stack on most of these systems and your typical desktop is the addition of drivers for high speed low latency interconnects such as those proveded by Quadrics, Myrinet and Infiniband vendors and the addition of MPI. These two items are intrinsic to HPC, not Linux. You'll find them on any vendors offering.

>> these people use linux because of beowulf, not because it is "better" than freeBSD.

Linux is used because it is widely supported, inexpensive and robust. How many high speed, low latency interconnects are supported in the various *BSD's?

As for Theo, I was on the netbsd list at that time. He was an abbrassive pain in the back side but he was also about the only guy getting anything done at the time so far as I could see. Personally I favored his side in that particular BSD splintering.

I recall David Miller, who did much of the porting of Linux to the Sparc architecture joining the NetBSD Sparc mailing list at one point and offering to help out. He was treated HORRIBLY. This and many other incidents soured me on the BSD camp forever.

I'd suggest to the BSD zeolots that they A, remove the chip from their shoulder and shutup, B, get coding and C, let nature take its course.

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