On Jan 24, 2008, at 22:58 , william wong wrote:
That brings me to another ponder: why juniper and cisco are using
FreeBSD and not Linux even Linux performs better in an UP environment?
2008/1/25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
"william wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"william wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
It seems that Juniper favors the even number FreeBSD's.
Only because 5 was a dog. They probably stuck with 4 for a
while, then
switched to 6 once they had ascertained that it was significantly
more
stable than 5. I would be surprised if they skipped 7.
Please pardon my ignorance of the jargons. Does that mean 5 is not
stable or does not perform or what?
FreeBSD 5 was not a very good series. It was released late and had
issues with both stability and performance. FreeBSD 6 corrected the
stability issues and some of the worst performance issues. FreeBSD 7
took care of the remaining performance issues; it may not be as
fast as
4 was on UP, but it beats Linux on SMP.
(there's no point in comparing SMP performance between 4 and 7
since 4
had a single-threaded kernel and practically no userland thread
support)
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please do not top post.
The reason Juniper and Cisco are probably using FreeBSD is because of
the license that FreeBSD is under (BSD-License) versus the Linux
kernels GPL.
Bert JW Regeer
