Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:46:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: surprise: he finds FreeBSD is a better OS Message-ID: <20010906234632.69025.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com>
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from Byte Blabber Centre http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1267/byt20010829s0001/0903_moshe.html I found, with little surprise, that the FreeBSD system of "ports collection," which lets you get updated precompiled binaries from the standard FTP servers around the world in a secure way and have it installed automatically, far outperforms the Red Hat update agent (which on top of all things is subscription based and therefore costs you money). When you work remotely, it is important that these updates work flawlessly and don't leave your machine in an undefined or broken state. The Red Hat update agent in a few occasions failed to resolve dependencies correctly and only half-installed the necessary binaries or sources. The FreeBSD system always correctly installed or denied to install subsystems. Also, the "make world" compile-everything option in FreeBSD comes in very handy when you download sources and then leave the server up to itself for a few hours to recompile everything freshly. I logged in the next day and found everything working perfectly. I also advise you to turn on softupdates (for faster files metadata operation, in some cases up to 2000% faster) and increase the "maxusers" parameter. ACS Datanet provided me with a 256-MB RAM, 30-GB disk, 900-MHz CPU box for the FreeBSD server, and so the "maxusers" really makes things go faster. Once everything was fixed and tuned, I found the FreeBSD to often outshine the Linux servers. The more I use FreeBSD the more I like it. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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