From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 17:15:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA16555 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salsa.habaneros.com ([207.34.140.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA16546 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jalapeno.habaneros.com (jalapeno [207.34.140.98]) by salsa.habaneros.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA07640 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:01:26 -0700 Received: by jalapeno.habaneros.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BB5882.11F0B100@jalapeno.habaneros.com>; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:10:35 -0700 Message-ID: <01BB5882.11F0B100@jalapeno.habaneros.com> From: "Neil C. Jensen" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: I'm almost afraid to ask, but.... Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:10:28 -0700 Encoding: 23 TEXT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It's time for us to upgrade and buy a new Internet server; primarily running Aache and probably mSQL. Our present server is based on FreeBSD 2.1R, and I've been very happy with it (thank-you FreeBSD team!). Unfortunately, I'm getting questions from my colleagues re. the use of other systems (i.e. Sun Netra, Sun SPARC5, SGI WebForce Indy, etc). The feeling is that because we are not paying (through the nose, I might add), we are not getting quality, fast systems. I would like to get some hard evidence to support my arguments to continue using FreeBSD. Does anyone know of any performance benchmarks comparing FreeBSD vs. Sun, etc? Any other solid technical reasons why FreeBSD is superior (particulary with respect to Sun Netra)? Please, I am not looking for flames against any other systems, just some solid evidence to support my reccomendations. Apparently it is not enough that our system has been running quite happily for some time now. Thanks in advance. Neil Jensen Habanero Studios Ltd. Vancouver, Canada