From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 05:23:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA17317 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 05:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-23.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.123]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA17310 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 05:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA29675; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:23:07 -0400 Message-Id: <199606131223.IAA29675@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 From: Branson Matheson To: Benjamin Lewis cc: "Neil C. Jensen" , "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: I'm almost afraid to ask, but.... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:23:08 CDT." <199606130423.XAA15605@ylana.vet.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:23:06 -0400 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ------- Benjamin Lewis uttered with conviction: >Niel C. Jensen wrote: >> 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. There was a report on performance differences between Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux running on a pentium from the Usenix96 conference: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sd96/lai.html You have to be a usenix memeber to get it. -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?