About Slackware and FreeBSD ,Who is Fast?

Slackware >FreeBSD?
or
FreeBSD>Slackware?

I never could tell much difference but did not run any benchmarks.

oh sorry,At The same hardware!
and RUN the same AMP(Apache+MySQL+PHP) Server!

I have Slackware 10.0 on an AthlonXP 1600+, 512mb ram and a Radeon 7500

and FreeBSD5.3 on an AthlonXP 1500+, 512mb ram and a Radeon 7000

Both are running Gnome2.6.and both are very stable.

The FreeBSD system seems a little faster on most tasks but took way longer to setup
I used the native FreeBSD java via the ports and it took over 7 hours to install. OpenOffice
1.1.2 took more than 24 hours on DSL256 to install. I have 2 minor bugs in FreeBSD
that I have not been able to fix.

I learned alot with FreeBSD and would use it on a PPC or AMD64 (unless Slackware is
ported to those platforms) It is a little easier to update 3rd party apps like OpenOffice and Java
in Slackware.

Thank you very much
I Install Slackware10 always without X
But I find Debian is slow and Slackware is fast,I don't know Why.

Slackware's kernel is i686 compiled along with it's packages. Most other distros like debian are actually i386 compiled, and their packages i686 compiled. I believe this adds to the lag.

Isn't Slackware was i486?

When you're on the command line I've found that Slackware and FreeBSD are both equally fast.
I found that Slackware is faster in X than FreeBSD on the same system. I ran FreeBSD for quite awhile.
Now I exclusively run Slack.

Funny to resurrect a post from 2004, but yeah, I agree with hitest, except that in my experience Slackware feels faster for everything, even with a custom FreeBSD kernel. Every time there's a new FreeBSD release I give it a spin and end up removing it after about 1 month. It's a great OS, but I'm spoiled with Slackware: simplicity, speed, no bloat (some ports pull tons of deps) and I end up using linux emulation for everything, so.. why bother (for a desktop). Of course, it depends on your needs. Use the right tool for the job.
My 2 cents

please check the dates on old threads, if they are ancient, then don't rez them, just start a new one. The ideas will be completely split in the thread anyway, obviously FreeBSD and Slackware today are different from 5 years ago.

May be so, but FreeBSD is more logical than any Linux distribution. Even Slackware is considered to be BSD-like.
A custom FreeBSD boots very fast on my machine and its dmesg output is much shorter than that of Linux.
Slackware boots fast only when customized.

I started running FreeBSD back at 5.x, but, I prefer Slackware. Saying FreeBSD is more logical is open to debate and flaming considering you're posting this comment in the official Slackware forum. After a long evaluation process I've concluded that Slackware is a better OS for me.
Each to his own.

Oh, sorry! I didn't want to enflame anybody. FreeBSD and Slackware -I love them both, because they're much alike. When FreeBSD is in front of me, I say to myself "That is a true UNIX that I have for free".
When I have Slack before my eyes I think "This a true Linux".

My experience with FreeBSD is that the userbase is mostly a$$h0le$. I formulated this several years ago when I had some FreeBSD boxes (and I wasn't a noob then) but I noticed when people asked questions on the FreeBSD Usenet group (and several FreeBSD forums), the typical response was: "friggin noob! This question has been asked X times! RTFM!!!". I posted several times that the BSD jerks wasted more time by posting 10 "RTFM" replies than they would have by copy and pasting the answer.

The NetBSD guys were nice and the Linux guys were nice. It just seemed the FreeBSD guys were mostly elitist jerks.

AND that's why I stayed with Linux (plus it works on more stuff with far more apps for it).