From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 17:25:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA10434 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper7b.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.64]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA10198 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA09583; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:14:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:14:43 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Jay Johnson cc: Dave Andersen , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: <199611022323.QAA23614@fluffy.aros.net> 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 Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Dave Andersen wrote: > > probably get freebsd and try it out on another server before taking down > > our irc server. I have heard that FreeBSD is alot more powerful than Linux > > anyway. How does it compare to BSDI or SCO Unix? Anyway any information > > about this would be greatly apreciated. Thanks > > Can't help too much there. Sorry. :) We're an all-FreeBSD shop now > that we've migrated our machines from Linux. Best move we ever made. :) The biggest difference between the two seems to be about US$1000. I work for a small BSDI based ISP. I've got FreeBSD on one of my workstations. After seeing the two of them side by side for the past several months the decision has been made that our future unix boxes will be FreeBSD, and when upgrade time comes for the BSDI boxes they will be converted to FreeBSD. BSDI has, IMO, a better adduser/rmuser script, 16 character user names {PLEASE, let's not start beating on that horse carcass again.} and, .... hmmm that's all I can think of. FreeBSD supports more hardware, support for SMP is available, the ports and packages collections make adding apps a no brainer, better support, responsive developers, SKIP support, dozens of other things I can think of right now, and more fun overall. I compiled ncurses-1.9.9e on both FreeBSD and BSDI. The included test program fireworks displays in color on FreeBSD, the sysadmin is pouting 'cause it's monochrome on his BSDI box. :) Jack p.s. I almost forgot, BSDI's web site is really boring compared to ours. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------