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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 24 Jul 1995 11:18:04 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Gary E. Grant <ggrant@crl.com> wrote:
>In article <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
>J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>>currently only two show-stopper bugs that i know of, but that can be
>>worked around well.  Unlike all other Unix machines in our office,
>>FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 does also survive the frightening "fork trap".
>>
>>Do you need more information? :-]
> How does the performance of Freebsd 1.1.5.1 compare to Freebsd 2.0.5 ?
>Gary :-)

I think 1.1.5.1 is still better.  I've mainly noticed this on my
notebook where resources are scarce.  I haven't felt any larger
difference on my desktop machine however.

Anyway, this will heavily depend on what you're doing.


-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)