Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:34:42 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?RMH?= <rmhlldr@yahoo.co.uk> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mandrake 10 Beta Versus FreeBSD 5.2 Message-ID: <20040212103442.42656.qmail@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > 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/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org Both results are inadequate, and it seems there is no DRI enabled in both cases. 400MHz PII + Matrox G400 + FBSD 5.1 with XF86 4.2.1 deliver 429fps. Although a floating-point unit on P4 is very poor anyway... --- Regards, Rhett ___________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk
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