Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:36:49 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: tyler spivey <tspivey8@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD VS OpenBSD/Netbsd/etc... Message-ID: <20011127233647.A1879@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <20011128052112.HYNU22911.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8>; from tspivey8@home.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:21:13PM -0800 References: <20011128052112.HYNU22911.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8>
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tyler spivey (tspivey8@home.com) wrote: > i have a pentium 200 mhz, 128 mb of ram, and a 5 gig hd. > what bsd implementation is faster? My personal benchmarks show that FreeBSD-4.4 is over 50% faster than OpenBSD 2.9, and a whopping 9.2 times faster than NetBSD 1.5.2. > i come from a linux background and am switching over to bsd. I installed Debian on a spare hard drive, but get an unpleasant feeling every time I use it. Despite all the great things people say about apt-get, I really hate precompiled binaries... What good are they if you want to compile SSL into mutt, pcre into postfix, mail and news out of Mozilla, etc.? -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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