I understand they were testing out of the box stuff, but I wish they had upped to a newer gcc in the FreeBSD install, and recompiled some of those programs. Id really like to get a feel for the actual differences between the OSes without extra variales like compiler and 3rd part libs getting in the way. Such a thing would really be kernel+libc comparisons then.
Those differences that "get in the way" are actually relevant in the real world, where people will use those systems as they are and not after upgrading and recompiling core components.
