[geeks] Intel's new bechmark idea

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Wed Mar 6 03:45:57 CST 2002


on 3/6/02 4:35 AM, Dave McGuire at mcguire at neurotica.com wrote:

> On March 6, Kris Kirby wrote:
>>> What are you running on them?
>> 
>> OpenBSD.
> 
> Ahh, ok.  I thought you were going to say Solaris, and I was going
> to laugh hysterically.
> 
> The BSDs are very lightweight OSs, and they tend to perform reasonably
> well on IPX boxes, in my opinion.
> 
> -Dave

I have to agree with Dave here. I have run IPX's with OpenBSD and the
performance was great for those machines. Of course if you are running them
with heads they may be a tad slow :)

Mike N



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