FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000 comparison

[Brian J. Conway]

> I stumbled on this page today.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html
> 
> Do you feel that this comparison is still accurate?

I'd say some of the comments are accurate, but many of the 
performance-related statements are dated, as the 2.4 kernel has moved far 
beyond the 2.2 kernels, which I presume the page referred to.  There have 
been huge improvements in filesystem and network performance on both sides 
of the FreeBSD and Linux comparison since it was written (Linux's 
journalling filesystems and improved SoftUpdates on FreeBSD), and I've 
found the 2.4 kernels to be much more even with the latest FreeBSD 
releases.

I actually found this article 
(http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/) to be a 
well-written and rounded comparison.  Though 9 months old at this point, 
the conclusions are still on-target.

-b