Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:35:51 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com>, bitter@noah.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need comparative data Message-ID: <19990803123551.A79092@blues.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <19990803114516.K62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <67650953.933580567520.JavaMail.nobody@shell5.ba.best.com> <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com> <19990803114516.K62948@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 at 11:45:17 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 1:23:16 -0700, Roy Bettle wrote: > > bitter@noah.org wrote: > >> One thing I keep reading is that "Linux and FreeBSD are really > >> more alike than they are different." If that is true than can > >> someone give me one reason why I should use FreeBSD? If all the > >> support and momentum is with Linux then why risk going with > >> FreeBSD? > >> > >> "Throw me a bone here people..." > > > > One quick point re: FreeBSD - as a high-volume server - vs. > > Linux: > > > > Yahoo! = FreeBSD > > cdrom.com = FreeBSD > > redhat.com = FreeBSD > > Where do you get that from? They'd be the last people to run > FreeBSD. > > $ ftp ftp.redhat.com > Connected to ftp.redhat.com. > 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre3 Server (Red Hat FTP) [pub.iad.redhat.com] That really doesn't say much, but take a look at http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/Reports/199905/developers/redhat.html That survey is from May, but there's links there to see what they're currently running. I don't see FreeBSD on any of those though ;-) As Greg said, chances of RedHat running FreeBSD is uhm, slim to say the least. -- - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - FreeBSD: http://advocacy.freebsd.org/ - jim@advocacy.FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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