Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:22:24 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What tipped the balance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980726211200.25942A-100000@dsinw.com> In-Reply-To: <19980727101736.63991@welearn.com.au>
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My story is a bit different from your's Sue. Like (I suspect) many others on this list, I am a career computer geek. :) The company I was working for opened up a small Internet provider at my insistance. I found a good Linux administrator who helped us get everything setup and baby sit the entire system. He chose Redhat 4.0. While I was impressed with what a UNIX system in general could do, my personal experiences with Linux up to that point had been disappointing. I had installed both 1.0 and 2.2 on my computer and had them deleted within a week as I didn't have the time to play with a whole new operating system. Anyways, the Net stuff went ok, but we had too many small unexplainable problems. The Web Server would crash with only three people acessing it, modems would drop out intermittently, etc. After several months we ended up putting in a FreeBSD box just to route traffic and our problems almost completly disappeared. (Our remaining problems were traced to a poorly installed piece of equipment by the phone company.) Later on I started working for Rod Grimes who is on the core team. He showed me through installing and building commercial grade systems what FreeBSD really could do. (Including, FYI the machine that is now ftp.cdrom.com) Since then, my opinions of both systems has changed dramatically. FreeBSD isn't THE answer for everyone, but if you're doing any kind of routing and file serving it's perfect. While Linux is a good desktop system. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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