From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 10:27:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A67F16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431EF43D1D for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:27:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27102 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2004 18:27:27 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Feb 2004 18:27:27 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1BIRCM8094970; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:27:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:25:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1076478994.10663.22.camel@pc070981.me.gu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1076478994.10663.22.camel@pc070981.me.gu.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402111325.40548.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: Mandrake 10 Beta Versus FreeBSD 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:27:28 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org