From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 02:34:44 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 55EA816A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.10.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1F0A43D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rmhlldr@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20040212103442.42656.qmail@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [194.44.215.100] by web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:34:42 GMT Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:34:42 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?RMH?= To: current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 05:25:00 -0800 Subject: Re: Mandrake 10 Beta Versus FreeBSD 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rhett@alasir.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:34:44 -0000 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 <>< 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