From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 20:35:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDA737B41D for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (apparently) from scott1.nyc.rr.com ([24.168.25.8]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:35:14 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011118233146.0585be90@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:35:14 -0500 To: Marco Radzinschi , Doug Garrick From: Scott Subject: Re: 4.4 Cc: In-Reply-To: <20011118230051.V56320-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> References: <3BF87D1B.4010607@sweetwaterhsa.com> 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message