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Thursday January 06, 2005

performance comparison: NetBSD vs FreeBSD

gregory mcgarry did a performance comparison between NetBSD 2.0 and FreeBSD 5.3. the paper is here. the benchmarks test core os functionality, scalability and thread implementation. very impressive: looks like netbsd is going far and fast. [i actively use both, but netbsd has been running my core mail/web server and in my voyagers and aging vaio for a long time...]

(2005-01-05 21:22:47.0) Permalink Comments [2]

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Ozan, Just curious. Why not Solaris for your own servers ? Would be interesting to see how Solaris 10 would compare with the same benchmarks

Posted by Yusuf Goolamabbas on January 06, 2005 at 01:50 AM EST #

when i first installed the mail/web server, it was on a sparc10, <em>netbsd ran faster</em> and the software i needed either came with it, or built and installed trivially. (this was before the freeware cd) when i later re-installed it on a 300mhz pc, <em>solaris x86 was no longer a product</em>.

if i have to redo it, i may think about using s10/x86...

Posted by oz on January 07, 2005 at 10:07 AM EST #

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