FreeBSD or NetBSD on older hardware (MMX)

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:02:42AM +0800, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote:
> I fished out an old laptop out of my closet.
> It is a Pentium 233 MMX w/ 64MB Ram and 12G HD
> I am thinking about setting up a small station for browsing the web.
> Which would perform better on such a system?  FreeBSD or NetBSD?
> 
> I know that this is a mailing list for FreeBSD users, but I am hoping
> that you will be objective and give me a suggestion based purely on
> performance.
> 
> Thank you,
> Tomoki Taniguchi

I would guess that performance differences between NetBSD, FreeBSD, or
most any OS for that matter will be neglibile for the purposes of a
simple web terminal.  Use whatever you are most comfortable with.
Someone will surely disagree with me.

Nathan
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