From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 17:30:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32584158E9 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:30:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp87.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.87]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA06527; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:23:56 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: greg strockbine , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack - win98 vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990407123222.P19144@cpl.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > This is my first experience running any Unix on my home > > pc. For a developer its pretty nice, very easy to > > install one of the ported apps. But for an ordinary > > end user its not turnkey enough. > > I've noticed this as well. Not only do pages load faster, Netscape in > general seems much snappier. This was Win95 though, can't say for 98. I > think FreeBSD is just better/faster overall than any MS product. :) My home network consists of a Win95 box, a Linux Sparc Station and two or three various FreeBSD boxes. Of them all, FreeBSD seems much snappier. I can also tell when Netscape is launched on the 95 box... it slows everything down. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message