Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

On 8/30/2011 10:30 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 05:21 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>> On 08/30/11 12:31, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>>> On 08/30/2011 12:59 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>>> But I also express my opinion that updating such a document should be
>>> done by a third party.
>> I slightly disagree with that.
> 
> No problem
> 
>> Who else than the developer/core team
>> members know better about what's
>> in and what's not in the FreeBSD box?
> 
> So, for a features listing, it's OK. I really agree on turning it into a
> feature list.
> 
> For a _comparison_, I think it's up to somewhere else:
> To really compare, it's mandatory to really now the multiple compared
> items. Who cares about the latest MS Windows internals (deep networking
> capability, filesystem tricks, kernel scheduler specs,...) in here?
> 
> I migh be wrong, but IMHO "core devs" and "power users" wont spend time
> to deeply investigate on the other systems.
> 
> Again, just an opinion.
> 

As a casual user and a staunch supporter, I would strongly disagree with
you here. if a third party wiki (even Wikipedia) contained such a
comparison, I would question it's validity moreso then if the project
itself were to maintain a release-based comprison of currently supported
branches (7.x, 8.x, 9.x*, etc) vs  a selected choice of mainstream Linux
Distro's, OS X Server and Windows 2003/2008.

But this comparison can't be trivial, it has to be genuine, authentic,
(peer reviewed across the board if possible), backed up by fact (links
back to other reputable sources). In short, it's a monumental
undertaking and may require the work of many dedicated people
(new/active marketing team?) It should very much be done by FreeBSD as a
project and should be taken seriously as a marketing technique, the
object is to show people *WHY* FreeBSD is a sound (and valid) choice
against the competition, we can't just claim we're better because we
know we are, we have to provide a convincing argument that is true and
honest fact.

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