From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 13:17:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA04637B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from truman.datasphereweb.com (12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com [12.231.81.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D98D43E9E for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 84348 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2002 20:20:38 -0000 Received: from 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com (HELO bartxp) (12.229.238.38) by 12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2002 20:20:38 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: Subject: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:17:10 -0700 Message-ID: <006101c27ad1$2b410470$0200a8c0@bartxp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 I don't want to start a Linux/FreeBSD flamewar, but I do need some info I have an associate who will be making major changes to their network and want my help/advice. He intends to have a something like this: ----Web server (Public IP) inet ----- router( Public IP) --- / \____DMZ (Private IPs) The DMZ will house his mail, misc. servers and workstations. They might use some CISCO equipment for the router but it would limit them to 10mbs, and he would rather have 100mps. His first thought besides CISCO was Linux, as some of his clients use Linux and it is a good idea to use what your clients use. I have almost zero experience with Linux, but I am a FreeBSD fan, so naturally, I recommended it to him. I tried to give him some of the benefits/hinderances to using either, but I am not well enough versed in Linux to give good data. I was hoping someone on this list might have real data/reasons to use one or the other. Valid concerns are: security, compatibility, stability, flexibility, support, etc. Some concerns I have with Linux are the variety of distros available for Linux, even if clients are using it, which ones are they using, etc. Also, I am naturally biased to FreeBSD because I have used it for quite a while. Thanks for any input. -Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message