Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 20:32:34 -0700 From: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com> To: jim@blues.ghis.net Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, bitter@noah.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need comparative data Message-ID: <37A662D1.F8C4ACF@criterion-group.com> References: <67650953.933580567520.JavaMail.nobody@shell5.ba.best.com> <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com> <19990803114516.K62948@freebie.lemis.com> <19990803123551.A79092@blues.ghis.net>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DC945565D49196BE8AAAD6D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My apologies for not thoroughly checking my own information. The data re: redhat.com running FreeBSD on their FTP server was about 1 year old. I did anon FTP connect and was greeted with a FreeBSD login. RAB Jim Mock wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 at 11:45:17 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 1:23:16 -0700, Roy Bettle wrote: > > > bitter@noah.org wrote: > > >> 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..." > > > > > > One quick point re: FreeBSD - as a high-volume server - vs. > > > Linux: > > > > > > Yahoo! = FreeBSD > > > cdrom.com = FreeBSD > > > redhat.com = FreeBSD > > > > Where do you get that from? They'd be the last people to run > > FreeBSD. > > > > $ ftp ftp.redhat.com > > Connected to ftp.redhat.com. > > 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre3 Server (Red Hat FTP) [pub.iad.redhat.com] > > That really doesn't say much, but take a look at > http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/Reports/199905/developers/redhat.html > > That survey is from May, but there's links there to see what they're > currently running. I don't see FreeBSD on any of those though ;-) > > As Greg said, chances of RedHat running FreeBSD is uhm, slim to say > the least. > > -- > - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - > - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - > - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - > - FreeBSD: http://advocacy.freebsd.org/ - jim@advocacy.FreeBSD.org - > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------DC945565D49196BE8AAAD6D4 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rbettle.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Roy Bettle Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rbettle.vcf" begin:vcard n:Bettle;Roy tel;work:(949) 452-1203 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.criterion-group.com org:Criterion Group, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:rbettle@criterion-group.com title:President note:Businesses that depend on computers, depend on us. adr;quoted-printable:;;26895 Aliso Creek Road=0D=0ASuite B404;Aliso Viejo;CA;92656;USA fn:Bettle, Roy end:vcard --------------DC945565D49196BE8AAAD6D4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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