Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:58:31 +0100 (MET) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thread at Redhat Message-ID: <199711051158.MAA29982@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Wed, 05 Nov 1997 02:28:07 -0800 References: <34603F23.41C67EA6@mdstud.chalmers.se> <25173.878725687@time.cdrom.com>
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> > > My local guru appears to be out of date in his recommendation of freeBSD > > over Linux. I've been running RH as a web server in test mode and I've > > I'm glad that you found an OS to suit you, but I still totally fail to > see how your evidence of how this "guru" is out of date with his > recommendation. FreeBSD makes an excellent web server, as numerous > ISPs (from Yahoo on down) will attest. What do you expect? If somebody ask the Red Hat Linux mailing-lists, (s)he'll get the answer that Red Hat Linux works for running a web server. It does. If that somebody had asked the FreeBSD mailing-lists if FreeBSD works for running a web server, he'd get a yes too - because it works too. A much more interesting question to ask is 'how many of you have switched from X to Y?" for the relevant Xes and Ys, in the appropriate forums. And ask them why. Personally, I switched from Linux to FreeBSD because FreeBSD had much better performance and "felt much more right" - everything was there, it was obvious that this was an operating system people had lived in for a long time, and fitted to themselves - and it fit me too. These days, Linux is catching up performance-wise - some places FreeBSD is better, some places Linux is better. My personal impression is that FreeBSD still is a hair better on average, but it is no longer order-of-magnitude better for most things. The main reason I'm sticking with FreeBSD didn't occur to me until after I started using it - the professional mind-set of it's community. Linuxers (in my experience) tend to be much more young hot-shots with little Unix-experience before they started using Linux, and little large-scale development experience. The development of FreeBSD reflect its developers; it is managed in a professional manner. This allow me to do things like re-compile the operating system from source with a single command, verify what has happened to a file to create a problem I'm seeing, and keep a system up to date with the latest security patches on a day to day basis automatically. I'd never go back to Linux now. Eivind.
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