Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:43:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) Message-ID: <199508210643.IAA04266@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199508210148.SAA01536@freefall.FreeBSD.org> from "John Dyson" at Aug 20, 95 06:48:39 pm
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As John Dyson wrote: > > I just did a competitive performance analysis of FreeBSD vs. Linux. I > can't say that FreeBSD was the CLEAR winner, but it was much faster > in many key areas. ... I cannot see where people say that Linux needs > less memory either. Did you also compare them on a 4 MB box? Would be interesting. Background: i'm running a notebook with 5 MB, and it's really slow. But it worked better with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 than 2.0.5. (Part of this impression might be the switch from X11R5 to X11R6, along with that infamous omission of -lgnumalloc in XFree86 3.1.1.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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