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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
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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