Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:54:20 -0500 (EST) From: J McKitrick <jxm6801@megahertz.njit.edu> To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>, cweimann@wallnet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD better than Linux? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991208134608.18124A-100000@megahertz.njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199912081734.MAA10773@entropy.tmok.com>
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Just a few thoughts, on what i know about the technical side: 1. The FreeBSD filesystem is slightly slower but far more reliable after a crash than Linux in many cases (NOTE: not all). 2. The virtual memory management in FreeBSD is more efficient than in Linux, and this supposedly explains why it performs better under load. 3. FreeBSD doesn't use run levels, and this simplifies maintenance. 4. From a common sense standpoint, a system that is designed from the ground up to be integrated will be far easier to maintain than one where only the kernel is controlled and everything around it is a matter of interpretation. 5. If you choose Linux, you will likely have to choose one flavor and stay with it, because every distro seems to have a different way of doing some of the smaller things (don't ask for examples, i know directories is one but that's it) and switching from one to another can break the system. 6. Linux fragmentation causes lots of incompatability. Notice when Linux users talk: They start with the Linux distro, then the kernel version, then sometimes libc5 or glibc, then various drivers/modules/options, followed by the hardware list. In FreeBSD it's 'Hi everyone, I'm running X.X -yyyy on a ...' and that's it. It's more coherent, and that means lesslikely to break. Do i have numbers or details? No. But any good sysadmin will at least listen to good reasons like these. Besides, stats can always be slanted and biased. Just ask mindspring. ;-) -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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