From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 6:44:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A241511D for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 06:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11Y8P4-000DIJ-00; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:43:46 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08419; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:43:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:43:46 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server performance In-Reply-To: <19991004150300.X63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a Toshiba Satellite 4010 CDT. I wish i could have afforded a Dell. ;-) But the student loan worked out quite well ;-) I'm having sound problems, but that's it.. otherwise, i love it. jcm On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: |On [19991004 04:18], J McKitrick (jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) wrote: |>Has anyone done and benchmarks or unofficial tests of Xservers for FreeBSD |>versus those for linux? I am trying to make sure that FreeBSD is really |>the best choice for my laptop workstation. | |Non-commercial we only have XFree for all I know. And I do not know of |any benchmarks that shows the difference between those two. | |On the commercial front we have two or three commercial vendors offering |X-servers. XiG is one which I know from the top of my head, I have no |clue who those others were again. | |But who know, mayhaps someone has done a test, I am curious about the |results though. | |What laptop is it btw? I have used a Dell Latitude CP with great |pleasure together with FreeBSD 3.x and XFree 3.3.3.1 and upwards. | |HTH, | |-- |Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl |The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project |Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best |Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door! | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message