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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 02 Dec 1995 09:42:24 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: bl03@uwrf.edu's message of 1 Dec 1995 03:19:14 GMT
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In article <49ls7i$62e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) writes:
Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: In article <49doel$skq@jennifer.pernet.net> eli@jennifer.pernet.net (E. Eli Boaz) writes:
: Not necessarily easier, better. Linux is MUCH, MUCH faster than
: FreeBSD for a SINGLE user machine. FreeBSD tends to respond faster
: to things like network I/O and disk I/O faster than Linux, but
: Linux tends to respond more to 'user' visible processes...
: I would like to know where you find data to support such questionable
: hypotheses.
I think we tested this once on the newgroups with Byte's UNIX as a base,
and I think the results shows thoughts above...I'd be interested in waiting
until 1.4/2.0 to come out and run another test between them. I think it
would more then likely show that Linux has improved from 1.2.
I'm simply challenging the assertion "Linux is _MUCH_, _MUCH_ faster
than FreeBSD". Maybe it's a little faster. You'll have to prove to
me with hard numbers before I'll believe "MUCH, MUCH". I think you're
just plain wrong.
BTW.. Linux has better UDP support.=)
That's what they tell you. :-) Just remember, ignorance is bliss...
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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