Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!rclnews.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 4 Jan 1996 19:26:05 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ch9kd$2ob@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4cesep$pb1@agate.berkeley.edu> <4cf40b$9ri@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4cg8es$1ih@knobel.gun.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31882 alt.os.linux:6814 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11362 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1711 In article <4cg8es$1ih@knobel.gun.de>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> wrote: >In article <4cf40b$9ri@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, > tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: >>I am actually running FreeBSD on a 386, >>and can say after scientific testing that it is much slower than >>Linux on a Pentium :-) > >Well, simply saying such statements isn't fair. You certainly >know about the difficulties with benchmarks and so on ... I think you didn't read Tim's posting too carefully. He was joking here folks, joking! :-) Having also compared Linux on a Pentium vs FreeBSD on an i386, I can confirm Tim's `benchmark results' :-) Jordan