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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 16:04:06 GMT
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In article <36ksic$96h@nntp1.u.washington.edu> mkshenk@u.washington.edu (M. K. Shenk) writes:
>In article <36jcb5$ilp@rivendell.apana.org.au>,
>Phil Homewood <phil@rivendell.apana.org.au> wrote:
>>Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:
>>: Now the question is, which os better?  Better as in...
>>: 3) faster
>>FreeBSD (the difference isn't generally noticeable)
>Support this?

Not hard - I can write you a benchmark to show either is better. The older
*BSD kernels were slower especially on a 4Mb machine due to lack of shared
libraries and other things. On the whole they are pretty similar.

Alan


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