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Date:      Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:35:14 -0500
From:      Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>, Doug Garrick <dgarrick@sweetwaterhsa.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.4
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011118233146.0585be90@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011118230051.V56320-100000@mail.radzinschi.com>
References:  <3BF87D1B.4010607@sweetwaterhsa.com>

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At 23:01 2001/11/18 -0500, Marco Radzinschi wrote:

>I second that... bloody RedHat Linux 7 and 7.1 took 10 times as long to
>boot as FreeBSD.


Heh--this got me curious enough to do a very lax test--a machine where I 
have several O/S's installed---KII6 450 with 192 megs of Ram.  Booting from 
RH's Grub, so I began counting after the O/S began to boot--that is, if I 
choose FreeBSD, first it does this chainloader thing.

Lots of factors that I ignored, but, with all but Win2k booting into text 
mode....

Trustix Linux (a stripped down RH clone)
15 seconds
FreeBSD  18 seconds
Slackware 8.0  18 seconds
RH 7.2  31 seconds
And, the Winner---
Windows 2000 Professional  65 seconds.  :)

Subjectively, FreeBSD just seems faster in many  ways --as if it reacts 
more quickly to keystrokes than any of the others. 


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