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From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: linux vs freebsd testimonial
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A few weeks ago, my single linux box fried.  I replaced both the hard
drive (with an identicle one) and linux with freebsd 2.1.5.

The machine runs majordomo, ftp, apache, and an irc server.

The performance is way up there!  Under linux it would frequently slug
down to a crawl.  under FreeBSD it just keeps zipping along.

There is a very definite noticable difference in response and load
handling.