Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:23:06 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Benjamin Lewis <blewis@vet.purdue.edu> Cc: "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I'm almost afraid to ask, but.... Message-ID: <199606131223.IAA29675@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:23:08 CDT." <199606130423.XAA15605@ylana.vet.purdue.edu>
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------- 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?
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