--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 10/20/08, Ron Youvan
> <ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > > One thing that I failed to mention is this
> live BSD was
> > > the slowest
> > > at doing everything that I ever tried.
> > Live cd's are always going to be slower than
> actual installs.
>
> That may not be the only problem, though.
>
> For instance, the last time I tried FreeSBIE, it was dog
> slow -- even
> compared to other LiveCD OSes (like Knoppix, MEPIS, et
> cetera). If the
> same is true of this LiveCD OS, I have to wonder why the
> only two
> examples of a BSD Unix LiveCD I've run across run so
> slowly, when
> Linux-based LiveCDs have performed more tolerably in my
> experience. This
> seems especially strange, considering FreeSBIE is based on
> FreeBSD, which
> in my experience outperforms Debian GNU/Linux when
> installed on the hard
> drive.
Maybe it has something to do with the filesystem used on Knoppix and similar livecd's v.s. the one(s) used on the *BSD livecd's. I'd be interested in learning this myself, and would delve into it more if I wasn't so busy with school & work currently.
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