Subject: Re: Benchmark Competition for Open Source Operating Systems
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/03/2004 18:57:07
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:22:50PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> As just posted to freebsd-advocacy and FYI:
> 
> http://osuosl.org/benchmarks/bc/methodology/
> 
> Now there's this one part I don't get:
> ``We'd like to do NetBSD but we're not sure it would work on the Dell
> 2650
> [http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2650?cs=555]''
> 
> Why would NetBSD not run on this?

It's dual processor, and we're not exactly advertising having stable SMP.

-Martin