Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:47:02 -0400 (EDT) From: David Kramer <david@thekramers.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206251236040.24044-100000@kramer.thekramers.net> In-Reply-To: <3D1877F9.9040305@rambo.simx.org>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > This is of course a question of personal taste, but I would > probably choose FreeBSD. On small or medium size networks and on > x86 hardware I find it hard to beat fbsd's performance. > Linux is gaining performance wise, they have made some > significant improvements lately, but Linux still gives me an icky > feeling. I just cant sleep well at night if I have to trust Linux > to run my servers. I'm curious about this. Performance is something that can be measured, but what about Linux makes you feel "icky"? I ask, because I'm going to be building a new server at home in a few weeks (firewall/ipmasq/web/mail/ftp/ssh/couple users). I'm a long-time Linux user, but now I'm using FreeBSD a lot from work. I've been considering using FreeBSD instead of Linux for the new server, but I'm having trouble finding *recent* *objective* advantages to one over the other. For instance, I know the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack was much tighter and more secure in the past, but I don't know if that's still the case. So I would be interested in hearing any objective advantages of FreeBSD over Linux. DISCLAIMER: I just signed up for about 8 of the FreeBSD mailing lists a few days ago to try to get a handle on this. This question may be more appropriate for -advocacy, but I haven't seen a single post on there, so I don't know whether it's really alive or not. If I really should post there, though, please correct me. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer david@thekramers.net http://thekramers.net DK KD "The water was not fit to drink. DKK D To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. DK KD By diligent effort, I learned to like it." DDDD - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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