From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 15 16:35: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717F137B405 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0600.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.90] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16xFzz-0004JU-00; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:35:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3CBB638D.1F03820F@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:34:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David Cc: Seth Hieronymus , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mention in a Gentoo Linux review References: <3CBB1E2D.5060908@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johnson David wrote: > Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > If anyone is interested, > > > > In this OSNews.com review of Gentoo Linux 1.0, the author mentions that > > despite Gentoo Linux being the fastest Linux, FreeBSD 4.5 is faster (not any > > kind of scientific benchmark): > > How strange... What makes Gentoo any faster than other distros? I > realize that you can set the equivalent of a make.conf to build for your > particular CPU, but is it any faster than a stripped down linux build > from scratch? I suspect hyperbole. Read the article: o Load time o Time to shut down -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message