[geeks] 486 as router/firewall/server

Boatman on the River of Suck vance at ikickass.org
Wed Jan 16 00:26:23 CST 2002


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > > I'd go with NetBSD, but out of those, it's FreeBSD.  A packet has a
> > > shorter route through a system running a BSD kernel than Linux.
> >
> > Now *that* is nitpicking.
>
>   I agree...but in this case, the performance difference on similar
> hardware is quite noticeable.

The difference on PCs is quite staggering, actually.

Peace...  Sridhar



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