Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:48:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com> Cc: bitter@noah.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need comparative data Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908020947500.24352-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com>
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> One quick point re: FreeBSD - as a high-volume server - vs. Linux: > > Yahoo! = FreeBSD > cdrom.com = FreeBSD > redhat.com = FreeBSD > World record for most data transferred in a day: cdrom.com, Pentium Pro 200, > FreeBSD = 900+ gigabytes of data transferred. > Actually, FreeBSD = 1.39 Terabytes on cdrom.com on a PIII Xeon 500 > Actually, I guess that would be 4 points. > > Bone successfully thrown? > > ;-) > > RAB > > > bitter@noah.org wrote: > > > I've been browsing through the mail archives look for the > > "Linux Versus FreeBSD" type messages. They all seem to go something > > like this: > > > > Newbie Q:"What's the difference between Linux and FreeBSD?" > > Guru A:"It all depends on what you want and even if I knew > > the answer I would not tell you because I refuse to > > lower myself by getting involved in a religious OS war." > > > > I'm coming from a large company that uses mostly Sun Solaris and a bit of WinNT. > > A group of us is trying to put together a low cost system to run a load > > balanced web server (currently 4 Ultra2 running Netscape Enterprise server) > > with some server side database application code. We're a bit tired of Sun and > > we are fed up with Netscape. We are currently evaluating Linux versus FreeBSD > > (originally we were considering WinNT, but we have a lot of legacy scripts > > that make the web server work. Also I was the only WinNT advocate and when > > it was suggested that my penis might not be big enough I finally relented > > and decided to stick with a UNIX variant. But which one?) > > > > As far as administration and support goes I think it's clear that Linux > > has a big advantage. Many packages (like Apache and Squid) come prebuilt > > in RPM format. Also Linux seems to have good Java support. > > > > As far as performance and reliability go I have not seen any arguments > > one way or another. I suspect that FreeBSD is more stable (another reason > > we decided against WinNT). Also, it seems that FreeBSD might be more > > modular. We would like to remove as much crap as possible to get a clean > > and easy to maintain system. But I don't have any real reason to believe > > that Linux isn't dependable compared to WinNT. > > > > We could also stick with Solaris since the Intel Solaris licenses are not > > very expensive. Solaris is pretty good as far as I can tell, but I'm not > > real fond of the Sun techs. > > > > One thing I keep reading is that "Linux and FreeBSD are really more alike > > than they are different." If that is true than can someone give me one > > reason why I should use FreeBSD? If all the support and momentum is with > > Linux then why risk going with FreeBSD? > > > > "Throw me a bone here people..." > > > > Yours, > > Noah > > bitter@noah.org > > > > 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
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