Speed ?

[Quintin Riis]

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 :(
>