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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:25:40 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mandrake 10 Beta Versus FreeBSD 5.2
Message-ID:  <200402111325.40548.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1076478994.10663.22.camel@pc070981.me.gu.edu.au>
References:  <1076478994.10663.22.camel@pc070981.me.gu.edu.au>

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On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:56 am, Brett Wildermoth wrote:
> Just thought I'd let you all know of my new discovery
>
> On two identical DELL Optiplex GX270 3.0GHz machines I installed
> Mandrake 10 Beta on one and FreeBSD 5.2 on the other. I ran "glxgears"
> on both and here are the results
>
> Mandrake 10: 388 Frames per Second
> FreeBSD 5.2: 644 Frames per Second (almost twice the performance)
>
> What they say about FreeBSD is true, it is faster than LINUX, especially
> since the LINUX kernel put on weight.

Probably you didn't have DRI turned on in Mandrake and did on FreeBSD somehow.  

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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