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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!wizard.pn.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.zoom.com!news.zoom.com!not-for-mail From: hjl@zoom.com (H J Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Date: 7 Feb 1996 08:32:58 -0800 Organization: Zoom.Com Information Services Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4fak7q$rk5@aurora.romoidoy.com> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <strenDM7Gr4.Cn2@netcom.com> <4f4jal$epr@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aurora.zoom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13365 comp.os.linux.development.system:16751 Craig Johnston (caj@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu) wrote: : > : >Let me put it in another way: Linux feels faster for the day-to-day : >work. You usually don't copy large files very often. : > : Kind of a blanket statement. In my case, on a ncr53c810 SCSI chip, FreeBSD I am also using ncr53c810 with 4GB disks connected to it. : feels _much_ faster than 1.2 Linux kernels. I do hear that Linux support : for this chip has improved in recent 1.3 kernels, but it was rotten in : 1.2.. no disconnects, slow. A 'find' from / moves along quite nicely on : FreeBSD 2.1.0 relative to my old Linux 1.2 kernel. Couldn't say anything : about support in Linux 1.3.(recent)... it may well be as nice as FreeBSD's : now. : I have no speed complaints regarding FFS on my PCI 486-100, ncr SCSI machine : with 5400 RPM disks, to say the least. Frankly, it screams. : Just try em both, both the Slackware (only large linux dist. I know) and : FreeBSD 2.1.0 installations are a snap. Please try libc 5.2.18 with linux kernel 1.3.57. You can do # time tar xfz gcc-2.7.2.tar.gz Linux may feel faster than xxxBSD on that. BTW, I have to that kind of stuff all the time. H.J.