Originally posted by Adarion
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux
Collapse
X
-
Originally posted by frostwyrm333 View PostI don't know about the deep things but I'm surprised that Hurd is actually comparable to linux.
- Likes 1
Comment
-
Originally posted by frantaylor View PostRealistically, BSD was just emerging from its legal difficulties at the time, and would have been the "canonical free OS" if Linux had not come along. So we already have TWO free OS with broad hardware support thanks to Linus and Bill Joy.
PS on the article from Michael: It's indeed sad that the tests were carried out in a VM, that seems not too really realistic to me. At least I expect all sorts of falsifying effects from the VM/host machine. But with this hardware support projects like HURD, Plan0/Inferno might stay an experimental research project for geeks. But maybe some of the interesting info won there could be used in the more mainstream products.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
Comment
-
Benchmarking OSes under virtual machines reminds me this
Comment
-
I didn't mean to say tests inside a VM are completely useless, but they are meaningless without knowing what is being tested. Doing the same tests on the same machine on bare hardware might help, provided the machine is booted with only one core/thread active. And of course, as somebody already mentioned, more different tests would be useful too.
Comment
Comment