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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:213 comp.os.386bsd.misc:694 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!myall.awadi.com.au!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Date: 19 Aug 1993 23:05:52 GMT Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 25 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Aug19170554@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <55270001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <24gnu4$skm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> <24o03m$io4@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: s_titz@ira.uka.de's message of 16 Aug 1993 12:55:18 GMT >>>>> On 16 Aug 1993 12:55:18 GMT, s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) said: Olaf> In article <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) writes: Olaf> Okay, while you bring in BSD: I really don't want to restart any Olaf> argument of Linux vs BSD. Both can be considered, as far as I observe, Olaf> rather equal in power, with some advantages on the Linux side wrt. Olaf> speed and memory usage and on the BSD side wrt. networking. Hmmmm do you have the evidence to back the speed claim?? Out of interest I did a timing on my 386BSD system compiling JGraph, as per the article by Ajay Shah: time on my 386BSD 486/25 with 16M (running slip/X and other cruft) with mixed SCSI/ESDI disk drives: 144 seconds. for Linux on a 486/33 with 20M: 177 seconds My tests were done running gcc 2.4.5 whereas Ajay's were done using using 2.3.3 NOT a flame, just a data point. I will add more data to this later. -- Brett Lymn