Which Is Faster: Debian Linux or FreeBSD?

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Title: Which Is Faster: Debian Linux or FreeBSD? ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "Back in January, we published the first benchmarks of Debian

GNU/kFreeBSD: the spin of Debian that replaces the Linux kernel with the

FreeBSD kernel while retaining most of the same GNU user-land and it

uses the GNU C library. With those original tests comparing Debian

GNU/Linux to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the Linux version ended up winning in

18 of the 27 tests. However, over the past six months, the Debian

GNU/kFreeBSD port has matured and it's also moved to using the FreeBSD

7.3 kernel by default (compared to 7.2 back in January) and the FreeBSD

8.0 kernel is also emerging as a viable option that can be obtained

using Debian's package management system. Today we have updated test

numbers looking at the performance of Debian with the FreeBSD kernel

using two different notebooks where we ran the latest Debian

GNU/kFreeBSD packages with both the FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.0 kernels, Debian

GNU/Linux with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel, and then finally we tested the

pure FreeBSD 7.3 and FreeBSD 8.0 operating systems."

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