From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 19: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neenee.outstep.com (a904j637.tower.wayne.edu [141.217.140.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABB337B404 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:09:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from yahoo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by neenee.outstep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B8418274 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:09:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A70EA71.20E61B0F@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:09:37 -0500 From: Lonnie Reply-To: Lonnie_Cumberland@yahoo.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15-4mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hardware Question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am currently running Linux Mandrake 7.1 and have become disappointed with the performance of Linux on my system. It appears to be somewhat sluggish at times and slow to respond to various web/ftp queries. We are developing an Internet application, and from what information that I can find, FreeBSD was built to handle large user loads and is supposed to be more stable than Linux which is what we are looking for. One of our test machines is an Intel Pentium 500Mhz with 128-Meg ram, 16Meg 3dfx VooDoo3 AGP video card, 27.3 GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive, with a Ultra ATA 66 controller. What I am wondering before I decide to switch over the FreeBSD from my current Linux, is if FreeBSD will run on this machine setup. There appears to be a problem with the new versions of Mandrake 7.2 supporting this setup and to make things run would require much modifications before it could get installed. I would also presume that we could still do our standard web developments using FreeBSD as it should have similiar c++ library headers as Linux GCC and I am also guessing that MySQL can be installed as well? Besr Regards, Lonnie Cumberland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message