On Tue, 17 May 2005 00:59:09 +0800, Tomoki NetBSD Mailing Lists wrote:

> I fished out an old laptop out of my closet.
> It is a Pentium 233 MMX w/ 64MB Ram and 12G HD
> I am thinking about setting up a small station for browsing the web.
> Which would perform better on such a system?  NetBSD or FreeBSD ?
> 
> I know that this is a mailing list for NetBSD users, but I am hoping
> that you will be objective and give me a suggestion based purely on
> performance.

If you end installing both and comparing, don't forget to turn softdeps on
in NetBSD. I believe FreeBSD has them on by default, while NetBSD doesn't.
And they make a big difference in filesystem performance.

Bye	Pavel