From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 13:01:50 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 BAC2D16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from server945.gisol.com (server945.gisol.com [207.44.208.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D5C43D2F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@countrypure.net) Received: from 216-229-72-45-dialup-mo.fidnet.com ([216.229.72.45] helo=countrypure.net) by server945.gisol.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjlxN-0006Ft-CS; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:01:42 -0800 Message-ID: <401039BE.3080704@countrypure.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:59:42 -0600 From: Quintin Riis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Holley References: <400E9846.4C3D4FE7@holley.uklinux.net> In-Reply-To: <400E9846.4C3D4FE7@holley.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server945.gisol.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - countrypure.net cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:01:50 -0000 You'll see much more speed with a custom kernel. There's a section in the handbook that will tell you how to configure, compile, and install one. I've found FreeBSD to be much faster than Linux. Quintin Julian Holley wrote: > 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 :( >