Mandrake 10 Beta Versus FreeBSD 5.2

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:56 am, Brett Wildermoth wrote:
> Just thought I'd let you all know of my new discovery
>
> On two identical DELL Optiplex GX270 3.0GHz machines I installed
> Mandrake 10 Beta on one and FreeBSD 5.2 on the other. I ran "glxgears"
> on both and here are the results
>
> Mandrake 10: 388 Frames per Second
> FreeBSD 5.2: 644 Frames per Second (almost twice the performance)
>
> What they say about FreeBSD is true, it is faster than LINUX, especially
> since the LINUX kernel put on weight.

Probably you didn't have DRI turned on in Mandrake and did on FreeBSD somehow.  

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