I run FreeBSD 3.1 SMP on a dual 166 Pentium with 128 megs ram. I run two instances of SETI@home on it and can hardly tell much is going on while using Netscape or other apps.
When nothing else is going on seti runs both cpus at 95% or more. But with a nice value of 1 it smoothly gives up the cpu cycles going down to 40% or whatever.
I have run NT and Solaris on dual cpus and Solaris is the only one that runs as nicely. I am very impressed with FreeBSDs multi-tasking smoothness.
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I run FreeBSD 3.1 SMP on a dual 166 Pentium with 128 megs ram. I run two instances of SETI@home on it and can hardly tell much is going on while using Netscape or other apps.
When nothing else is going on seti runs both cpus at 95% or more. But with a nice value of 1 it smoothly gives up the cpu cycles going down to 40% or whatever.
I have run NT and Solaris on dual cpus and Solaris is the only one that runs as nicely. I am very impressed with FreeBSDs multi-tasking smoothness.
Linux rocks. I have used it for over four years. But I love FreeBSD, which I started using only a couple of months ago.
Install and setup is not difficult. Adding packages and the Ports system is great and badly needed by Linux.
The user PPP on FreeBSD is not only easy and straightforward it has many capabilities for displaying info on a conection.
ALMOST everything you do on Linux can be done on FreeBSD. Linux does have the most development effort behind it app wise.
So which to use? Try both and see which one "fits" you the best.
I'm a Solaris and AIX sysadmin and have run Linux and Solaris at home as well. FreeBSD is my main OS now. It "fits" me.
Oh and FREE OSes HAVE won. Bill Gates doesn't have to admit defeat for us to claim victory.