[orbit-user] Migrating all baselines images from Debian GNU/Linux to FreeBSD 7.0

Wed Apr 2 12:30:52 EDT 2008

Just in case, this is definitely not happening, happy April Fools! :)

  Luis

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to announce that after much deliberation, research and
>  argument we are migrating our baseline images from Debian GNU/Linux to
>  FreeBSD 7.0. This decision does not come lightly to Orbit, and we
>  would like to point out several key things that helped us form our
>  decision:
>
>  FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux in SMP Performance:
>        http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/06/1313218
>        http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf
>
>  FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000
>        http://www.freebsd.org/maketing/os-comparison.html
>
>  We feel that we can better serve our experimenters and users by making
>  the switch, and we hope to have the replacement images available by
>  April 2nd, 2008.
>
>  Regards,
>
>   Luis
>