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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.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: 12 Feb 1996 01:00:17 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4fm3f1$73a@helena.MT.net> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <strenDM7Gr4.Cn2@netcom.com> <4f4jal$epr@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4fak7q$rk5@aurora.romoidoy.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13628 comp.os.linux.development.system:17129 In article <4fak7q$rk5@aurora.romoidoy.com>, H J Lu <hjl@zoom.com> wrote: >: >Let me put it in another way: Linux feels faster for the day-to-day >: >work. You usually don't copy large files very often. > >: Kind of a blanket statement. In my case, on a ncr53c810 SCSI chip, FreeBSD >: feels _much_ faster than 1.2 Linux kernels. > >: Just try em both, both the Slackware (only large linux dist. I know) and >: FreeBSD 2.1.0 installations are a snap. > >Linux may feel faster than xxxBSD on that. BTW, I have to that >kind of stuff all the time. Have you *ever* run FreeBSD to compare them on the same hardware so that you can say with some authority that it is faster? Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth