From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 21:39:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC15937B416 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20011128053932.RZZD4848.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:39:32 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011128163658.04e59060@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:39:14 +1100 To: tyler spivey From: Rob B Subject: Re: FreeBSD VS OpenBSD/Netbsd/etc... Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20011128052112.HYNU22911.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspiv ey8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 16:21 28/11/2001, tyler spivey sent this up the stick: >i have a pentium 200 mhz, 128 mb of ram, and a 5 gig hd. >what bsd implementation is faster? >i come from a linux background and am switching over to bsd. I am from a similar background to you, and I run FreeBSD on an Alpha. Free* and Open* are similar in performance, with Open* being concerned with security of the base system. Net BSD is a little different to get used to, but for your system and situation, I would definately suggest FreeBSD. Cheers, Rob -- "Is", vt, 'is confused with' [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 11 of a collection of 1191 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message