I am sorry about not using ascii.
I use this as a special email (webmail) account for mailing lists and conferences, so that my work 
and/or school email does not get bombarded with spam.
I am using a Mac as a workstation and there are some bugs in Mac's IE. Recently I started using 
Firefox after trying Opera and Safari, but apparently it has its problems too. I should probably 
file this as a bug and hope Mozilla folks will fix this soon.
Sorry. For now I am composing my webmail under IE again. Messages written with it used to appear 
alomost the same with[/out] HTML formatting.

About flaming. I am not a fan of publically humiliating anyone. It's a wrong thing to do. In fact 
when the person who started this sent an email to FreeBSD performance list I merely pointed out 
that microbenmark != performance. It does not mean that NetBSD performs worse than FreeBSD. In fact 
it is possible that NetBSD is better, although I want to see a proof before such a statement could 
be made. I would think if dirhash optimizations get incorporated into the kernel performance will 
get another serious boost. I understand this is on its way?!

However, I don't like when an entire community gets crapped upon. In this particular instance 
without any merit.

If the author thinks that admistrating FTP for an amiga port and writing a networking FAQ gives him 
a license to lie and spread FUD, I wonder why did not anyone came to his defence. Perhaps I am not 
totally alone.

Personally, I would be very happy if NetBSD will the very best OS in the world. Hardware 
abstraction makes porting a breeze. As far as license goes FreeBSD and NetBSD are equivalent.

I am speaking only for myself, but I believe most FreeBSD people would agree to some degree. I do 
not dislike NetBSD project! I wish anyone success. I work for a kernel development shop and I 
personally lifted some code from NetBSD in a past. I have a reason to be thankful to NetBSD 
developers. 

What I do not like is FUD and dishonesty.

If someone has nothing better to, it is possible to configure Oracle to run under a BSD and run 
TPC-C. Results will reflect database "performance". I am sure there are benchmarks that could be 
used to evaluate which system performs better.

However even that is not so simple. For instance system could be optimized for high-load, medium-
load, low-latency etc. 

Either way. 

I have lots of work to do. So I am bowing out, unless someone would find that something I have said 
is not accurate.

igor.

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Igor Shmukler wrote:
> > Hubert,


> 
> If you want to flame someone, could you at least use ASCII?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
> If you don't spend energy getting what you want,
> 	You'll have to spend it dealing with what you get.
> 					      - Unknown
> 
>