Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:25:51 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Frederik Meerwaldt <frederik@freddym.org> Cc: "phpStop.com" <feedback@phpStop.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <39F209DF.88368125@bellatlantic.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010212037120.7117-100000@server.wes.mee.com>
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Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to > > choose from to drive our website. > > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster. Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly documented, finding sources for them is MUCH easier in FreeBSD. Linux is a patchwork of independent packages, and tracking down what came from where and was patched by what is usually not easy. Also commercial distributions of Linux sometimes tend to "lose" parts of sources, so that you will not always be able to re-compile the stuff at all. There's been a short period when I worked on building a Linux distribution and that was a quite special experience. I you would want to get a Linux after all I would strongly recommend getting a free distribution like Debian or Slackware. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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