On Tuesday 30 May 2006 00:50, Antonios Anastasiadis wrote:
> Let's keep pretending that openbsd is faster and more scalable in
> desktop than Linux. (in the same way Linux fans pretend their systems
> are more secure)

Depends on your needs. Also, define "scalability" in a desktop context. Or in 
any context, for that matter. "Scalability" is rather context dependant.

> Of course, everybody knows that reiserfs isn't a match for openbsd's
> multi-year-old ffs.

Depends on your needs.

> Also everybody knows that openbsd scales much better for large-scale
> SMP applications than Solaris, not to even mention Linux.

Nobody has said that it scales for SMP.

> And, I almost forget, openbsd's support for threads is way faster than
> everyone else's.

Threads != scalability and threads != speed.
Threads isnt a silver bullet for solving speed and "scalability" (however you 
define that) problems.

> Obviously Henning knows better than everyone else here, and I fully
> believe his words, but beyond that pretending OpenBSD is faster than
> your ultra-optimized-but-prone-to-breaking-every-day Gentoo system for
> everyday use is at least naive.

That's a rather pointless comparison and speed != scalability.
No sane person would run a super-fast but super-unstable system in a prodution 
environment.

> I use OpenBSD too for critical systems, but some guys here really need
> to wake up.

You seem to confuse speed with scalability a lot.

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Lars Hansson

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