Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 14:49:09 -0700 (PDT) From: ja <joseph@joseph.dswnet.com> To: Jonathan Salz <jmsalz@oakland.edu> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD as Web server? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960503144327.828A@joseph.dswnet.com> In-Reply-To: <318A682F.3D36586A@oakland.edu>
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Hey you heard right- FressBSD is derived and ported from commercial UNIX (BSDI), NetBSD, and of course the Freely Distributble version FreeBSD. It is very stable and has a decent compiler and very nice kernel architecture. The system is very FAST. The driver code for networking and the kernel interface code for I/O is very clean and tight. And there are some decent firewalls for security for it. Note I ran Linux for 1 year to test the stabilty of it, It is pretty good but the network sockets and Low level code is not as elegant and refined as the BSD stuff. And of course Linux is cheap.(mute point) A web servers primary concern if heavy hit is CPU and RAM. Have that and either box should be Cool! - :) Joseph Altea Senior Systems Engineer Data Systems West, Enterprise Solutions 818 883 9800 x234 http://joseph.dswnet.com - my little server and send me GIF or JPEG. On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jonathan Salz wrote: > Howdy! > > In the next few weeks I'm going to be setting up a Web server, probably > running Apache. I'm not quite sure, however, exactly which of the > various UNIXes to run it on: I'm quite familiar with Linux, but I hear > that its networking code is inferior to Free386, whose networking code > has been around much longer and is much more stable. > > Would anyone have any information as to whether the pros and cons of > running Free386 or Linux (1.3.x) as a Web server -- or where I could get > such information? Not trying to start a flame war here, just need some > information. :) > > Thanks! > > -- > www > (o o) > +---oOO--(_)--OOo---+ +-----------------------+ > | / / "For every action, | > | Jon Salz \ \ there is an | > | jmsalz@bigweb.com / / equal and opposite | > | \ \ government program." | > +-------------------+ +-----------------------+ >
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