From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jun 4 14:07:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07880 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw.pacbell.net (mail-gw.pacbell.net [206.13.28.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07748 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackv@earthling.net) Received: from eliot.pacbell.net (ppp-206-170-32-159.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.32.159]) by mail-gw.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id OAA07682; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:07:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jack Velte" Cc: , "Ellen Hsu" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 13:59:18 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd8ffb$a3e37cc0$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 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. do 100% of the app's run 100% of the time? (except for the buggy ones, eh?) then a slogan like, "freebsd, the stable linux," would work pretty well in linux journal, maybe. -jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message