by Cao | Aug 31, 2018 | FreeBSD vs Linux, Testing
Michael Larabel of Phoronix tests various FreeBSD versions, DragonFlyBSD, and Linuxes on the latest AMD Threadripper 2990wx processor. Benchmarks such as compression, OpenSSL signing, GraphicsMagick, and Prime Number Generation were done. You may view the detailed...
by Cao | Apr 20, 2018 | Testing
Michael Larabel of Phoronix has reported some benchmarks from FreeBSD ZFS and TrueOS ZFS along with various open-source distros DragonFlyBSD, Ubuntu, and Clear Linux. In addition, he also provided some charts on the Meltdown Kernel page-table isolation (PTI)...
by Cao | Sep 14, 2017 | FreeBSD, Hardware, Intel, Testing, TrueOS
Michael Larabel of Phoronix has tried out TrueOS & FreeBSD on a Xeon scalable platform / Tyan GT24E-B7106 1U server. Check out the link below for the results of his test. While we have tested a number of Linux distributions on Intel’s new Xeon Scalable...
by Cao | Aug 11, 2017 | FreeBSD, Testing
Michael W Lucas, author of several FreeBSD books such as FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, is calling for members of the FreeBSD community to contribute by doing various testing. See his blog for more information on how you can help keep the FreeBSD project alive. I’ve talked to...