Back in January, we published the first benchmarks of Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD: the spin of Debian that replaces the Linux kernel with the
FreeBSD kernel while retaining most of the same GNU user-land and it
uses the GNU C library. With those original tests comparing Debian
GNU/Linux to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the Linux version ended up winning in
18 of the 27 tests. However, over the past six months, the Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD port has matured and it's also moved to using the FreeBSD
7.3 kernel by default (compared to 7.2 back in January) and the FreeBSD
8.0 kernel is also emerging as a viable option that can be obtained
using Debian's package management system. Today we have updated test
numbers looking at the performance of Debian with the FreeBSD kernel
using two different notebooks where we ran the latest Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD packages with both the FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.0 kernels, Debian
GNU/Linux with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel, and then finally we tested the
pure FreeBSD 7.3 and FreeBSD 8.0 operating systems.
Read more at Phoronix.
Which Is Faster: Debian Linux or FreeBSD? @ Phoronix
Posted on Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 7:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck