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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:37:28 -0800
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Thomas Evans wrote:
> Interesting is the network performance of Linux is 3X FreeBSD, I plan
> on running other UNIX benchmarks for fun!

More than interesting, this is almost unbelievable.  I'd be interested
in knowing exactly what versions of everything you used and the
benchmarks in question.  In particular, if you used the loopback device
then you haven't actually tested network performance at all.
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project