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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!xs4all!xs4all!usenet From: "Robert Soen" <rsoen@xs4all.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: 30 Dec 1996 08:21:25 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Lines: 34 Message-ID: <01bbf62a$597f60c0$e7206dc2@beheerder> References: <32B6AFB0.787F@pc.jaring.my> <5974tk$k01@fridge-nf0.shore.net><m2ybew3puy.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com><Pine.LNX.3.95.961219163846.9274A-100000@nanaimo.island.net><59eicm$tgi@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <59n18s$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ztm-isdn01-06.dial.xs4all.nl X-XS4ALL-Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:21:25 MET X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33308 J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote in article <59n18s$790@uriah.heep.sax.de>... > token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow) wrote: > > > FreeBSD is significantly faster > > than Linux when it comes to scheduling and virtual memory management. > > Best test might be starting X and Netscape on such a limited environment > > or doing heavy serial I/O while doing other things (and watch the CPS > > rate :). > > 5 minute startup time for ``X -query <some_xdm_host>'' over a 115 kbps > serial line on a 386/sx-16 5 MB RAM notebook. Can you beat this? > > :-) > > (For those for whom it's not obvious to: do you have a machine > starting up X11 slower? ;-) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > I have the same experience, after working with Linux for about a year and switching to FreeBSD. The password protection is also much better. Robert Soen