From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 10:46:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C711937BB9A for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for questions@freebsd.org id 12Xq8a-000Oml-00; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:45:48 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA73648 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:45:48 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:45:47 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: is BSD slower? Message-ID: <20000322184547.A70028@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone comapred the preceived speed of the following under FreeBSD and Linux? XFree86 KDE Enlightenment IceWM all with a RivaTnT2 16 mb card, or equivalent? I'm trying to explain to a pal who tried BSD recently why this might be. He also had problems with running netscape w/o a.out X binaries (probably because he didn't use the port, right?) And he also said he had to reboot to use newly installed libraries, that ldconfig did not work. He's an advanced Unix/Linux user, so i don't know what i could do to help him, and these are all the details i have. But i would like to respond with something positive in the way of BSD advocacy, even if it doesn't change his mind and bring him back to BSD. He just felt it reminded him too much of Xenix times, w/o bells and whistles. jm -- -------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org "Doors to the pleasures of heaven or hell, and i didn't care which." -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message