[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“FreeBSD 8.0 introduced support for a TTY layer
rewrite, network stack virtualization, improved support for the Sun
ZFS file-system, the ULE kernel scheduler by default, a new USB
stack, binary compatibility against Fedora 10, and improvements to
its 64-bit kernel will allow a NVIDIA 64-bit FreeBSD driver by
year’s end, among a plethora of other changes. With today’s
benchmarking — compared to our initial Ubuntu 9.10 vs. FreeBSD 8.0
benchmarks from September — we are using the official build of
FreeBSD 8.0 without any debugging options and we are also
delivering a greater number of test results in this article, along
with a greater number of operating systems being compared.“The hardware we are using for benchmarking this time was a
Lenovo ThinkPad T61 notebook with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9300
processor, 2GB of system memory, a 100GB Hitachi HTS72201 7200RPM
SATA HDD, and a NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M graphics processor powering
a 1680 x 1050 LVDS panel.“Summarizing some of the key packages found in each operating
system, FreeBSD 8.0 was running with the 8.0-RELEASE kernel, GNOME
2.26.3 desktop, X Server 1.6.1, GCC 4.2.1, and the default UFS
file-system. FreeBSD 7.2 was released earlier this year with the
7.2-RELEASE kernel, GNOME 2.26.0, X Server 1.6.0, GCC 4.2.1, and
the UFS file-system. Ubuntu 9.10 was running with the Linux 2.6.31
kernel, GNOME 2.28.1, X Server 1.6.4, GCC 4.4.1, and the EXT4
file-system. Fedora 12 runs with the Linux 2.6.31 kernel too on the
desktop side is GNOME 2.28.1, X Server 1.7.1, and uses GCC 4.4.2 as
its compiler. EXT4 also is the default file-system in Fedora. Build
127 of OpenSolaris 2010.02 uses the 5.11 kernel, GNOME 2.28.0, X
Server 1.6.5, GCC 4.3.2, and the famed ZFS file-system. The 32-bit
versions of all operating systems were used, due to no NVIDIA
FreeBSD 64-bit driver being yet available for testing, but one
should be available by the end of this year.”
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