BSD and the Ruby Benchmark (via Jaime Fournier’s Blog)

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:16:20 +0000

So how did your OS fair?

NetBSD 5.0
OpenBSD 4.5
FreeBSD 8Beta2
Linux Ubuntu 9
OpenSolaris 2009/06
DragonflyBSD 2.2.1

The six benchmarks were conducted on the same hardware with basic installations. Obviously you might be able to improve performance with some special OS tweaks, but most people run with out of the box installs. Especially in the current state of things where IT budgets and staffers are stretch extremely thin who has time to remember to tweak the OS?

The Power Of Community (via: Open-Tube.com)

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:28:57 +0000

We had earlier featured many open source software, but here is a list that is the God of all the open source software, the software that is matured, well-established, popularized open source development and the use of free open source products. These projects are serving as a foundation to many software development projects, business networks and the public Internet for years and showed the world the power of community development.

4. FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD

FreeBSD is famous for superior reliability and performance. NetBSD is famous for supporting a wide range of hardware platforms, including embedded systems and mobile devices. OpenBSD is advertised as possibly the most secure Unix-like operating system, with a security audit that never stops.

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BSD and the Ruby Benchmark (via Jaime Fournier’s Blog)

The Power Of Community (via: Open-Tube.com)