From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 07:53:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA10504 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com ([204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA10492 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:53:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA12483; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:52:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:55:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: "Lenzi, Sergio" cc: David Monrose , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Lenzi, Sergio wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, David Monrose wrote: > > > > > Does linux comes with a WEB server? > > > > I think that do not. (I'm a BSD user). > Please take a look at the FreeBSD release 2.1 from ftp.freebsd.org or > Walnut Creek CDrom http://www.freebsd.org. > The system cames complete with more then 300 applications ready to run > among them an Web server (apache). Are you saying I'm wrong, or that running a web server on a linux box isn't the best idea? :-) While I'll agree that FreeBSD makes a better web server, most up-to-date linux distributions come with a web server, and as I stated, RedHat 2.0 and later comes with apache. I know this from experience. I'm currently running Redhat 2.0 at home, (and on the firewall at work, for masquerading), but I use FreeBSD 2.1 on the web server at work and on my development machine at work. I'll probably switch my home machine over as soon as I replace a dead drive. However, the only reason I'm doing this is because Linux ppp has a quirk on my system where all of a sudden it will start loosing packets. Everything thinks it's working, but the network link is dead. The only reason I originally went with Linux in the first place is because way back then, Linux had unified memory pool and dynamic shared libraries, and BSD didn't (I don't think there was a FreeBSD yet). Both OS's have their place.