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. --- Lars Hansson
