Debian Linux Benchmarked Against Debian GNU/kFreeBSD & FreeBSD

“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 .

“The 32-bit versions of all operating systems were used for
testing as the 64-bit Debian daily installer was not working with
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and one of the notebooks also does not support
64-bit software.”

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