Mandrake 10 Beta Versus FreeBSD 5.2

[RMH]

John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org

Both results are inadequate, and it seems there is no DRI enabled in both
cases. 400MHz PII + Matrox G400 + FBSD 5.1 with XF86 4.2.1 deliver 429fps.
Although a floating-point unit on P4 is very poor anyway...

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Regards,
 Rhett



	
	
		
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