Debian GNU/Linux was sharply faster for the Monkey Audio Encoding test profile.
The GnuPG performance was similar between the two Debian OS ports.
Overall, Debian GNU/Linux tended to perform better than Debian GNU/kFreeBSD in a majority of the benchmarks that were carried out on both Squeeze and Wheezy testing, at least for the Intel Core i7 3960X system used for today's open-source benchmarking.
More Debian GNU/Linux vs. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD benchmark results can be found in this result file. More information on the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port is available at Debian.org.
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