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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26282 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3631 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Message-ID: <Cx9Dyu.HJL@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36jcb5$ilp@rivendell.apana.org.au> <36ksic$96h@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 16:04:06 GMT Lines: 20 In article <36ksic$96h@nntp1.u.washington.edu> mkshenk@u.washington.edu (M. K. Shenk) writes: >In article <36jcb5$ilp@rivendell.apana.org.au>, >Phil Homewood <phil@rivendell.apana.org.au> wrote: >>Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote: >>: Now the question is, which os better? Better as in... >>: 3) faster >>FreeBSD (the difference isn't generally noticeable) >Support this? Not hard - I can write you a benchmark to show either is better. The older *BSD kernels were slower especially on a 4Mb machine due to lack of shared libraries and other things. On the whole they are pretty similar. Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''