Sam MacDonald writes: > Free BSD sounds interesting, it's not Linux.... FreeBSD is a complete operating system. Linux is just a kernel. There is only one FreeBSD. Saying you run "Linux" means you are running one of over a hundred different Linux-based operating systems. FreeBSD has the advantage of consistency. Do a Google search for something on FreeBSD and it will very likely be relevant to your operating system. The same does not always hold true for Linux. Plus, since all of the core operating system components are part of the OS, they are generally more consistent with each other than what you get on a typical Linux distro. > Have you ever run Free BSD? The company I work for runs FreeBSD on over fifty production servers. > How similar is it to Linux in X windows performance? It should be roughly comparable to that of Linux 2.4. Video drivers are in XFree86, not in the kernel, so they will be the same. NVIDIA now has drivers for FreeBSD, so you should be able to get 3D performance comparable to what you get on Linux and Windows. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list