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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Which is better? Date: 20 Oct 1994 18:25:56 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 25 Message-ID: <386cnk$996@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <37q8u2$je9@picasso.ICSI.Net> <CxtsK7.13L@oea.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <CxtsK7.13L@oea.xs4all.nl>, Ahmed Naas <ahmed@oea.xs4all.nl> wrote: >I don't know which is "beter" but I can tell you that I've been using >SLIP on Linux to connect to a SunOS 4.1.3 for the last six months and >I encountered no problems. I also have FreeBSD installed on a second >machine here but I find it, in general, appreciably slower than Linux >on the same hardware. Question: Which version of FreeBSD, and which version of Linux? What kind of hardware is on the Linux box, and what kind is on the FreeBSD box? What kind of applications are you running on either box, etc... I'm *seriously* asking for details, and not trying to ignite a flame-fest here. I'd like to know what is the cause of the slow-down, and if anything can be done to overcome it. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.