From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 02:14:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300D216A41F for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:14:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: from mail.outstep.com (www.outstep.com [205.177.73.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C327E43D46 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:14:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: (qmail 21403 invoked by uid 509); 31 Oct 2005 18:14:04 -0800 Received: from 70.120.87.170 by GeneralC.outstep.com (envelope-from , uid 507) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.83/1150. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(70.120.87.170):SA:0(-2.2/1.0):. Processed in 1.238213 secs); 01 Nov 2005 02:14:04 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=1.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: lonnie@outstep.com via GeneralC.outstep.com X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(70.120.87.170):SA:0(-2.2/1.0):. Processed in 1.238213 secs Process 21394) Received: from cpe-70-120-87-170.satx.res.rr.com (HELO ?192.168.0.114?) (lonnie@outstep.com@70.120.87.170) by mail.outstep.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2005 18:14:02 -0800 Message-ID: <4366CF66.6040204@outstep.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:13:58 -0600 From: Lonnie Cumberland User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <43668E08.7060208@outstep.com> <173645526.20051101030449@bk.ru> <4366B610.8060905@outstep.com> <20051101004051.GA5229@flame.pc> <4366CB80.8030802@outstep.com> <20051101020920.GA10721@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051101020920.GA10721@flame.pc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compile Kernel Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:14:15 -0000 Thanks again, I look forward to great success with FreeBSD for my projects. Cheers, Lonnie Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2005-10-31 19:57, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > >>For a particular project as small web hosting company called >>"PeoplesQuest Web Hosting Services" we are going to be using a >>control panel H-Sphere that needs FreeBSD 4.11 because of some >>particular Java dependency so I have had that version loaded onto >>the server so that we can migrate over from Linux. >> >> > >That definitely makes sense. If 4.11 is what you need and it works >fine for your project, then it's absolutely fine to keep using that >version. > > > >>If all goes well, then in the future we will update to the latest >>stable versions of FreeBSD but I am going to be carefully watching >>how it performs in comparison to various Linux versions although I >>am told that FreeBSD is very stable and performs extremely well, and >>better in many cases that Linux, under heavy loads. >> >> > >To be realistic, FreeBSD doesn't *always* axceed the performance of a >Linux system. You can certainly find particular workloads for which >Linux outperforms FreeBSD. The reverse is also true, of course ;-) > >Speaking for myself, after almost 7 years of working with FreeBSD, >it's not just the "raw performance" that keeps me away from Linux >if I can help it. Other factors count too. > >Not to turn this into a huge advocacy thread, let me just say that >the reasons why someone might prefer FreeBSD over Linux have been >discussed about a billion times on this and other mailing lists >of FreeBSD. You will most certainly find pointers very easily by >Googling around the *.freebsd.* hierarchy of discussion groups[1] >and searching the mailing list archives[2]: > >[1] http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists >[2] http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3A*.freebsd.* > >Welcome to the FreeBSD side of the world :) > >- Giorgos > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >