STeve Andre' wrote:
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> On Monday 14 September 2009 13:39:46 Tom Smith wrote:
>   
>> Hi Misc,
>>
>> Even though this article: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability was many years
>> ago and performance in OpenBSD had improved greatly since that time, I
>> still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD
>> performance. They cite poor threading, unused cores, no bigmem support,
>> etc. Yet, when asked outright to demonstrate their issue, no one can show
>> numbers or reproduce a performance issue. How do others defend OpenBSD in
>> these conversations? I normally cite the things I admire most about
>> OpenBSD:
>>
>> 1. Simplicty - (IMO, this is by far its greatest attribute... simple is
>> secure)
>> 2. OpenSSH
>> 3. pf, carp, OpenBGPD
>> 4. built-in security
>> 5. ports collection
>>
>> But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux
>> and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that
>> OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or desktop or mail server, etc and point out
>> that the old article so many people cite is indeed *old*.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions. I hate seeing such a fine OS so easily
>> dismissed by folks (many of whom) have never even tried it!
>>     
>
> Attempting to prove the worth of OpenBSD to folks who are not able to
> figure things out for themsevles is much like trying to teach butterflies 
> Calculus.
>
> It doesn't work and wastes your time.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
>   
Ditto.

Furthermore, OpenBSD is not a religion (not for me, at least). The only 
things OpenBSD *itself* needs is code and donations, not more devotees 
unless I'm severely mistaken.

If someone wants to use inferior tools to for a given project's 
requirements I'm more than happy to let them do so (unless they're 
paying me for consulting).

Cheers,
Tico