From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 5 9:15:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opengovt.open.org (opengovt.open.org [199.2.104.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A69D154E1 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Clark@open.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by opengovt.open.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA19818; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opengovt85.open.org(199.2.104.85) by opengovt.open.org via smap (V2.0) id xma019787; Thu, 5 Aug 99 09:14:37 -0700 Message-Id: <4.0.1.19990802195723.00f0f330@opengovt.open.org> X-Sender: clark@opengovt.open.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:58:17 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , Roy Bettle From: The Clark Family Subject: Re: Need comparative data Cc: bitter@noah.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990803114516.K62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com> <67650953.933580567520.JavaMail.nobody@shell5.ba.best.com> <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg, I think FreeBSD is a target for ProFTPD, so we may not know from that output what the OS is. [RC] At 11:45 AM 8/3/99 +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] > >Greg >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers >finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message