Linux vs FreeBSD

[Kintaro]

I want a nuculear fission powered laptop, so I can roam a little further.

[Orethrius]

I want a nuculear fission powered laptop, so I can roam a little further.

Richard Belzer you ain't. :p

[Kintaro]

Richard Belzer you ain't. :p

What?

[toadlife]

Unfortunately I was never able to do my gaming benchmarks on linux, as my extra hard drive I had died on me. I'll have to see if I can borrow one from work.

I just synced up to FreeBSD 6-BETA5, and everything is running smoothly. Unixbench I get higher scores in many areas over FreeBSD 5.4, so it appears the BSD devs are doing something right.

[Kintaro]

Unfortunately I was never able to do my gaming benchmarks on linux, as my extra hard drive I had died on me. I'll have to see if I can borrow one from work.

If it is going to even be valid you need the exact same hardware, including harddrives.

[toadlife]

Not with a gaming benchmark where the hard drives are not used.

[Orethrius]

Not with a gaming benchmark where the hard drives are not used.

 So you're just going to discredit read/write/access times and fragmentation out-of-hand?  Wow.  I can't *wait* to read *this* report.

[Kintaro]

Not with a gaming benchmark where the hard drives are not used.

Unless your benchmarking Commodore 64 games that are running off ROM cartridges, the Hard Drive is a factor. If your not using the same hardware the benchmark is flawed.

[toadlife]

I don't get the big issue. With these games, the hard drives are not used once the maps have been loaded once into memory. Quake III is so goddamn old that the whole fucking game could easily be loaded into memory, and with America's army the benchmark is taken long after the map is loaded and running purely in memory.

[some bum with red shoes]

Dude seiral ata 1.5Mb per sec, a doom three level loades within 5 seconds :thumbup:
(but funny that mandrake couldnot suport it only SuSE so far)