You and I have very different perspectives on benchmarking. To me, benchmarking means showing people how well software performs tasks that they are likely to perform. If I can't test with SMP on, the results are useless because the software is effectively disabled. As a reader I would discard those results, so as I writer I do not feel compelled to include them. When DragonFly has SMP functionality with HT machines, I will gladly benchmark it against other OSes.
The cvsup servers that I tried were abysmally slow. The worst one was the default server... since it's been about two weeks since I last used DragonFly, I can't remember the other server I tested. Was the main one cvsup.dragonflybsd.org? Whatever it was, I was glad I had another machine and a kvm switch so I could work on other things while the source tree crawled onto my test system.
Packages are irrelevant to my point about the non-compiling XFree86 port. As a user, I don't care about reasons and excuses as to why things don't work -- all I know is, I followed the directions and it didn't compile. Did you expect me to lie and say everything was perfect? You should treat this as an opportunity to fix what is broken so that the next version can be superior. You think this is that bad as far as negative reviews are concerned? Ridiculous -- I badly wanted to like DragonFly, but it didn't work right.
I thought DragonFly would have been better than what I used for this review. I was hoping to switch to it from FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my main workstation, actually. I hope the DragonFly team continues development and produces an excellent second release, but 1.0A just isn't usable for people with HT machines or those who need a reliable Ports tree.
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Re:Simple fixes
Posted by: Jem Matzan on August 10, 2004 04:08 AMThe cvsup servers that I tried were abysmally slow. The worst one was the default server... since it's been about two weeks since I last used DragonFly, I can't remember the other server I tested. Was the main one cvsup.dragonflybsd.org? Whatever it was, I was glad I had another machine and a kvm switch so I could work on other things while the source tree crawled onto my test system.
Packages are irrelevant to my point about the non-compiling XFree86 port. As a user, I don't care about reasons and excuses as to why things don't work -- all I know is, I followed the directions and it didn't compile. Did you expect me to lie and say everything was perfect? You should treat this as an opportunity to fix what is broken so that the next version can be superior. You think this is that bad as far as negative reviews are concerned? Ridiculous -- I badly wanted to like DragonFly, but it didn't work right.
I thought DragonFly would have been better than what I used for this review. I was hoping to switch to it from FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my main workstation, actually. I hope the DragonFly team continues development and produces an excellent second release, but 1.0A just isn't usable for people with HT machines or those who need a reliable Ports tree.
-Jem
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