Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:05:40 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 18 Message-ID: <33008AC4.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5doc1s$jhd$1@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <5dq01s$bba@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:84157 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2518 Peter da Silva wrote: > > In article <5doc1s$jhd$1@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>, > Mr Stuart Lamble <lamble@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote: > > That's probably the major reason for using Linux over FreeBSD - from all > > accounts, Linux is very much more IDE friendly than BSD. > > In what way? I've never had any IDE problems with FreeBSD. Hell, the first > box I set up was on dual 380MB ESDI drives. IDE would have been a major step > up. > I regularly get 5-7MBytes/sec on my IDE drives through the filesystem. Even old 540's give 2.5MBytes/sec or better... John