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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 4 Jun 1994 19:28:09 GMT Organization: Andreas Klemm, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 46 Message-ID: <2sqkkr$3p2@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s618a$34t@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2s86fj$cn4@acmex.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robert Sanders (gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu) wrote: : nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: : >In article <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es>, : >GARCIA VALDEARENAS <cdt94001@oasis.dit.upm.es> wrote: : >> Linux is faster than FreeBSD, but has a very poor network support. If : >Where do you get your numbers? Have you benchmarked Linux and FreeBSD : >on the same hardware? The german Unix magazine iX did a *BSD review. They compared FreeBSD 1.1 Gamma to BSD/386 (BSDI). They used bonnie and the SSBA benchmark suite to compare "numbers". To make it short: There were minor differences between the 3 candidates ... So the whole discussion about "what's faster" is something for /dev/null. I personally have the impression that FreeBSD 1.1 is more balanced when multiple processes with ans without disk i/o are running at the same time. FreeBSD 1.1 responses much quicker. I used Linux for about 1 year. The Last Linux Version was Slackware 1.2.0 with a new kernel 1.1.14 (and a new bdflush). Networking on Linux is slower than on *BSD. Try ftping something from a server, let's say a Sun SS10. When I do it with Linux at work I only get about 200KB/sec. With NetBSD 0.8 I got - several months ago - about >500KB/sec. The developement system is faster on FreeBSD ... gcc on Linux is a bit slow... : And except for the "very poor" network support, as I've mentioned in another : post. Linux's networking is very close to being fully mature. You can also : run many MS-Windows program under dosemu if you have a copy of Win3.0 (for real : mode), but since that's rare, that part is practically true. But Linux networking is slower '-) BTW: I like both OS. Best regards Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)