From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jun 4 12:08:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12050 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11983 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02122; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:07:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199806041907.OAA02122@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation In-Reply-To: <01bd8fbf$f4dea780$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> from Jack Velte at "Jun 4, 98 06:52:04 am" To: jackv@earthling.net (Jack Velte) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:07:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jack Velte said: > > how well does this work? if it works well, then it's a very good thing > because it'll be easier to canabalize linux users. 100% linux capability > would be a very good thing. is the `emulation' slower? > Generally FreeBSD emulation of Linux is slightly faster, and MUCH faster under load. Running certain LL benchmarks, FreeBSD is slower, but app performance is supurb. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message