Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 23:16:57 -0400 From: "Eric A. Griff" <eric@setjmp.com> To: <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: Message-ID: <012001beda39$fb84fba0$c100000a@cfpower.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Eric A. Griff <eric@setjmp.com> To: <jseymour@thestreet.com>; <letters@thestreet.com> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:14 PM > Hi folks, just thought I'd submit this little correction to > http://www.thestreet.com/comment/techsavvy/766561.html > > > But Linux, as a Unix derivative, has native scalability of a very high > order. (Consider, for example, that Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq), probably the > highest-traffic Web site in the world, runs on Apache server-software > running atop Linux.) Red Hat's Linux is highly scalable. > > > Is incurrect. Linux is a "Unix Like", and was a complete floor up design, > even though it is modeled after Unix. Unix derivatives are FreeBSD, NetBSD, > OpenBSD, SCO Unix, Solaris, AT&T Unix System V, among others. These are > originated from source code that have maybe billions of hours of uptime over > the past 30 years. Linux has about 7. > > Also, Yahoo is running Apache atop FreeBSD. > > Links: > http://www.freebsdmall.com/newsletter1/yahoo_and_freebsd.phtml > > Thank you for your minute, > > Eric A. Griff <eric@setjmp.com>, > setjmp Software Your source for custom > 181 Genesee Street Software Solutions. > Suite 504 http://www.setjmp.com/ > Utica, NY 13501 > Office: (315) 734-1668 Extension 205 > Home: (315) 495-2385 (seldom) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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