Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:55:44 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> To: RiffRaff@softhome.net (RiffRaff) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why freeBSD, freeBSD vs. netBSD Message-ID: <199801042055.PAA01220@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199801041501.HAA01816@hub.freebsd.org> from RiffRaff at "Jan 4, 98 02:57:16 pm"
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RiffRaff said: > I read the handbook and the FAQ's of both unix based operting systems and I > still have a question. > My problem is: > 1- In What ways freeBSD is better or worse than netBSD. > 2- What are the main differences about one and the other > 3- Who of them should i choose (I have a pentium 200Mhz with 64Mb of Ram > and 4Mb S3 virge) > What I need is a operating system better than linux. > Performance wise, you'll find that FreeBSD is more optimized on the X86 platform than NetBSD. However, you'll find that NetBSD has targeted multi-platform more aggressively than either FreeBSD or Linux. There are shops that use FreeBSD for X86's and NetBSD for other architectures. Even though they have diverged significantly, they are still similar enough to keep you sane :-). The LL performance of FreeBSD is much closer to Linux (faster) than NetBSD, while FreeBSD is also more optimized for macro level performance. All three OSes are working to improve, and comparisons made a few years ago are almost totally inaccurate now. I haven't checked NetBSD in about 1yr now, and they might have made some improvements that I don't know about recently. You'll often find that FreeBSD and NetBSD cross-pollenate, and at my work, we use both. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.
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