Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Javier Vasquez put forth on 11/11/2009 10:54 PM:

> If any one could share pointers to more up to date benchmarks, which
> are as well oriented not just to networking and servers, it'd be
> great.  The idea is to find data supporting the initial idea of
> freeBSD or openBSD providing better performance for old machines...
> Well, that might be a wrong assumption to start with, but that's what
> I've read...

Here's a novel idea:  Grab one of those 800MHz machines and take *BSD
for a test drive.  Run your own benchmarks against your current Linux
setup and publish the results.

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Stan