From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 16 17:58:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B7916A4CE for ; Mon, 16 May 2005 17:58:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054B443D3F for ; Mon, 16 May 2005 17:58:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D4EC90260; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:57:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: D6DFNnhbBp4itF5yJIClx4Rg5ZqyK1QaNBf3tIDOEkmU 1116266275 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C9F1DC; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:57:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1DXjqh-00059X-7O; Mon, 16 May 2005 11:57:51 -0600 Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:57:51 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: FreeBSD MailingLists Message-ID: <20050516175751.GC5623@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD MailingLists , questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TqjUw3h+J5USMjbw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3FDF A406 B149 3959 A8CB C5A9 3B46 4812 D852 7E49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD on older hardware (MMX) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 17:58:02 -0000 --TqjUw3h+J5USMjbw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:02:42AM +0800, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: > I fished out an old laptop out of my closet. > It is a Pentium 233 MMX w/ 64MB Ram and 12G HD > I am thinking about setting up a small station for browsing the web. > Which would perform better on such a system? FreeBSD or NetBSD? >=20 > I know that this is a mailing list for FreeBSD users, but I am hoping > that you will be objective and give me a suggestion based purely on > performance. >=20 > Thank you, > Tomoki Taniguchi I would guess that performance differences between NetBSD, FreeBSD, or most any OS for that matter will be neglibile for the purposes of a simple web terminal. Use whatever you are most comfortable with. Someone will surely disagree with me. Nathan --TqjUw3h+J5USMjbw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCiN8fO0ZIEthSfkkRAl7JAJ9xkjAEX+PwogLpimvDBWEBrHH+8QCgwdLy V/JVezBwW514nwUPZ/M7yww= =ZufT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TqjUw3h+J5USMjbw--