From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 21:36:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from longfellow.nbrewer.com (nbrewer.dsl.visi.com [208.42.141.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33FB37B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:36:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by longfellow.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D1613195F; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:36:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:36:49 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: tyler spivey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD VS OpenBSD/Netbsd/etc... Message-ID: <20011127233647.A1879@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , tyler spivey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011128052112.HYNU22911.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011128052112.HYNU22911.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8>; from tspivey8@home.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:21:13PM -0800 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tyler spivey (tspivey8@home.com) wrote: > i have a pentium 200 mhz, 128 mb of ram, and a 5 gig hd. > what bsd implementation is faster? My personal benchmarks show that FreeBSD-4.4 is over 50% faster than OpenBSD 2.9, and a whopping 9.2 times faster than NetBSD 1.5.2. > i come from a linux background and am switching over to bsd. I installed Debian on a spare hard drive, but get an unpleasant feeling every time I use it. Despite all the great things people say about apt-get, I really hate precompiled binaries... What good are they if you want to compile SSL into mutt, pcre into postfix, mail and news out of Mozilla, etc.? -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message