From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 9:56:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.sri.com (mailgate.SRI.COM [128.18.243.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 236FA37B404 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 20311 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2002 16:56:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate.sri.com with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 16:56:06 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by mailgate.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.1.18) with SMTP id M2002062509560502320 ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:56:05 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5PGuS46007789; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:56:28 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5PGuPqL028022; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:56:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200206251656.g5PGuPqL028022@axp.csl.sri.com> To: David Kramer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris In-Reply-To: Message from David Kramer of "Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:47:02 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:56:25 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From my experience of managing about 50 Linux workstations, about 5 Linux servers and about 8 FreeBSD servers I find that the FreeBSD boxen are much, much, much simpler to upgrade and keep current. (e.g. cvsup) and I find that they are more stable. I like the fact that FreeBSD manages the whole OS rather than the hodgepodge of packages that are munged together to make any particular Linux distribution. I trust it more to work. Finding and installing packages is also much simpler (e.g. /usr/ports) than locating some arbitrary RPM and hoping that it is linked against the libraries you have or that it hasn't got any other dependencies. (I know I know I can compile from source on Linux too, but I have to track down the dependencies manually). Also I sort of figure that if it aint in /usr/ports it aint worth having. My $.02 - Mike Hogsett > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > > > This is of course a question of personal taste, but I would > > probably choose FreeBSD. On small or medium size networks and on > > x86 hardware I find it hard to beat fbsd's performance. > > Linux is gaining performance wise, they have made some > > significant improvements lately, but Linux still gives me an icky > > feeling. I just cant sleep well at night if I have to trust Linux > > to run my servers. > > I'm curious about this. Performance is something that can be measured, > but what about Linux makes you feel "icky"? > > I ask, because I'm going to be building a new server at home in a few > weeks (firewall/ipmasq/web/mail/ftp/ssh/couple users). I'm a long-time > Linux user, but now I'm using FreeBSD a lot from work. I've been > considering using FreeBSD instead of Linux for the new server, but I'm > having trouble finding *recent* *objective* advantages to one over the > other. For instance, I know the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack was much tighter and > more secure in the past, but I don't know if that's still the case. > > So I would be interested in hearing any objective advantages of FreeBSD > over Linux. > > DISCLAIMER: I just signed up for about 8 of the FreeBSD mailing lists a > few days ago to try to get a handle on this. This question may be more > appropriate for -advocacy, but I haven't seen a single post on there, so I > don't know whether it's really alive or not. If I really should post > there, though, please correct me. > > Thanks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > DDDD David Kramer david@thekramers.net http://thekramers.net > DK KD "The water was not fit to drink. > DKK D To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. > DK KD By diligent effort, I learned to like it." > DDDD - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message