Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:50:53 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speed/responsiveness of FreeBSD and X Message-ID: <399966DC.64D45106@mitre.org> References: <20000815163951.B39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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j mckitrick wrote: > > I recently read from someone who got the impression that X under FreeBSD > seemed slower/less responsive than Linux. This wasn't an attempt to slam > BSD, and i don't know config details, but is this likely? Or could there > just be a *perceived* slowness for some reason? Well, some 3D cards (in 3D modes) are better supported under Linux (with binary drivers for instance). For the most part though, Linux and FreeBSD use the same X server code (XFree86) which performs quite similarly under FreeBSD and Linux. Linux also has a console framebuffer driver that is used for some applications that is much much faster than X, but it only works with a few applications (mostly games) that are specifically written for it. It used to be the case that applications using the framebuffer had to be suid root, but I think this has changed (at least I hope so!). -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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