From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 14:16: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1056414D06 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 8362 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 1999 21:13:57 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 8342 invoked by uid 0); 8 Apr 1999 21:13:56 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 8 Apr 1999 21:13:56 -0000 Message-ID: <370D1BDD.49242B68@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:13:01 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: greg strockbine , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack - win98 vs FreeBSD References: <370B846F.88E73AE8@dpc.com> <19990407123222.P19144@cpl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey wrote: >> I don't know if its my imagination or what, >> but it seems to me that pages appear a lot >> faster in netscape running under FreeBSD than >> under win98 (I made sure pages weren't cached). > > 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. :) Last I checked, the recommendation for compiling a stock Win32 Mozilla was a fast PentiumII, 250MB of disk, and that much again (or more) of physical memory. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message