Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:26:01 -0500 From: Steve Leibel <stevel@bluetuna.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Question Message-ID: <v04210125b696ac56a0f8@[24.168.80.161]> In-Reply-To: <3A70EA71.20E61B0F@yahoo.com> References: <3A70EA71.20E61B0F@yahoo.com>
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At 10:09 PM -0500 1/25/01, Lonnie wrote: >Hello, > >I am currently running Linux Mandrake 7.1 and have become disappointed >with the performance of Linux on my system. It appears to be somewhat >sluggish at times and slow to respond to various web/ftp queries. > >We are developing an Internet application, and from what information >that I can find, FreeBSD was built to handle large user loads and is >supposed to be more stable than Linux which is what we are looking for. > >One of our test machines is an Intel Pentium 500Mhz with 128-Meg ram, >16Meg 3dfx VooDoo3 AGP video card, 27.3 GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive, with a >Ultra ATA 66 controller. > >What I am wondering before I decide to switch over the FreeBSD from my >current Linux, is if FreeBSD will run on this machine setup. There >appears to be a problem with the new versions of Mandrake 7.2 supporting >this setup and to make things run would require much modifications >before it could get installed. > >I would also presume that we could still do our standard web >developments using FreeBSD as it should have similiar c++ library >headers as Linux GCC and I am also guessing that MySQL can be installed >as well? Your development environment will be the same re C++, gcc, perl, tcl, and all other open source Unix utilities. Your source code should compile on either platform with no conversion problems. Mysql runs perfectly well on FreeBSD although for a large production application I would recommend Postgres. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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