From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 22:07:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11257 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11234 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA02787; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:06:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brad Dietrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux In-Reply-To: <004701bd962a$109ba2f0$0201a8c0@bigboy.bradsnet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Brad Dietrich wrote: > I have run Linux for quite some time now, but recently have heard that > FreeBSD is considerably faster and more reliable at networking. Is this > true. Are there benchmarks published that demonstrate this speed > difference? If so, I would be very interested in seeing them. I am willing > to switch to FreeBSD if the payoff is worth my time. Oh good, this URL is working again. Here is a decent comparison page: http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd/bsdvlin.htm Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message