From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 07:12:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7037D16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.uklinux.net (s4.uklinux.net [80.84.72.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24AD43D6A for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:12:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@holley.uklinux.net) Received: from localhost (s4.uklinux.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0C8409FAF for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:12:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.uklinux.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (s4.uklinux.net [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with ESMTP id 04100-07 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:12:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from holley.uklinux.net (unknown [212.125.81.6]) by mail2.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5932409FA9 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Sender: polarbear@uklinux.net Message-ID: <400E9846.4C3D4FE7@holley.uklinux.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:30 +0000 From: Julian Holley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Speed ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:12:40 -0000 Hi folks - I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an IBM TP 390x on which I have successfully run Linux 2.2.* for years now, but I notice that BSD seems to be distinctly slowly - I mean in regards to user interact - i.e. desktop development (as you can imagine it's not a server) .... this is not what I expected, I thought FreeBSD would be about the same or maybe faster (more snappy) - is this usual ? or do I have somat wrong with my installation ? J also anyone else using FreeBSD on IBM laptops - as both APM and APCI seem to fail for my machine :( -- Powered by IBM Running Linux