Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:45:02 -0400 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'Johnson David' <djohnson@acuson.com>, Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD mention in a Gentoo Linux review Message-ID: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A088D8AF4@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1E4AD.A73618A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > -----Original Message----- > From: Johnson David [mailto:djohnson@acuson.com] > Sent: April 15, 2002 2:39 PM > To: Seth Hieronymus > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD mention in a Gentoo Linux review > > > Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > > If anyone is interested, > > > > In this OSNews.com review of Gentoo Linux 1.0, the author > mentions that > > despite Gentoo Linux being the fastest Linux, FreeBSD 4.5 > is faster (not any > > kind of scientific benchmark): > > How strange... What makes Gentoo any faster than other distros? I > realize that you can set the equivalent of a make.conf to > build for your > particular CPU, but is it any faster than a stripped down linux build > from scratch? I suspect hyperbole. > I would assume that they mean major distro's such as Red Hat, Mandrake and SUSE. Once you start stripping those down they don't tend to work. I have tried Gentoo and it is fast. But I still think the fastest without doubt, to me is Debian. And once you start comparing the speed of the stripped down versions you can tell a difference in speed, but that leads back to your question. Hmmm, don't know, but FreeBSD is faster so that's good :) Roderick P. Person Programmer II personrp@ccbh.com Yes, the road to install hell is paved with MDAC... <g> - Mark Jerde ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1E4AD.A73618A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.5.2654.45"> <TITLE>RE: FreeBSD mention in a Gentoo Linux review</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> From: Johnson David [<A = HREF=3D"mailto:djohnson@acuson.com">mailto:djohnson@acuson.com</A>]</FON= T> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> Sent: April 15, 2002 2:39 PM</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> To: Seth Hieronymus</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD mention in a Gentoo Linux = review</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> Seth Hieronymus wrote:</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> > If anyone is interested,</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> > </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> > In this OSNews.com review of Gentoo Linux = 1.0, the author </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> mentions that</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> > despite Gentoo Linux being the fastest = Linux, FreeBSD 4.5 </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> is faster (not any</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> > kind of scientific benchmark):</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> How strange... What makes Gentoo any faster = than other distros? I </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> realize that you can set the equivalent of a = make.conf to </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> build for your </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> particular CPU, but is it any faster than a = stripped down linux build </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> from scratch? I suspect hyperbole.</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> </FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>I would assume that they mean major distro's such as = Red Hat, Mandrake and SUSE.</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Once you start stripping those down they don't tend = to work. I have tried Gentoo and it is fast. But I still think the = fastest without doubt, to me is Debian. And once you start comparing = the speed of the stripped down versions you can tell a difference in = speed, but that leads back to your question. Hmmm, don't know, but = FreeBSD is faster so that's good :)</FONT></P> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Roderick P. Person</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Programmer II</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>personrp@ccbh.com</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Yes, the road to install hell is paved with MDAC... = <g></FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>- Mark Jerde</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1E4AD.A73618A0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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