From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 23:44:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA14121 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:44:38 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA14114 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:44:37 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA16095; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:41:54 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199508290641.XAA16095@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Netscape To: st9523b7@pilot.stu.cowan.edu.au (Gavin Forrest) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:41:53 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508290508.AA21233@bunyip.cowan.edu.au> from "Gavin Forrest" at Aug 27, 95 02:11:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2175 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hello, > I hope you can give me some details regarding the folowing queries. > I am currently assessing several Unix O/S packages and will be trialing > FreeBSD in anticipation of shifting to BSDI. That's an interesting start.. what will BSDI give you that FreeBSD doesn't? (there are a few things but I'm curious whether those things are what you are looking for) > I wondered if you could tell > me please, if Netscape will run on FreeBSD. Yes FreeBSD can run BSDI1.x Binaries. so just get the BSDI version off the net.. plus there are many other www browsers available. > This is primarily as I am > hoping to run this in conjunction with a our trials. I am aware that > Mosaic Daemons ship with BSDI. ditto, and there are many other HTTP daemons available too. see the 'packages' collection for abut 200 ported applications for FreeBSD. you can also run some SCO and Linux apps directly > I am also curious as to how many users > FreeBSD is configured to allow. Does the measurement of what constitutes > a user fit in with that used for BSDI. I am interested in particular > with the assesment of HTTPD sessions. how much does each user wish to do? I wouldn't do more than 20 or 30 simultaneous users if they are doing edits and compiles.. if it's just ftp or http serving, then 300 simultanious sessions is a fair limit.. (depending on lots of other things..) I'm sure Brian will tell you about his experience... > I am also curious as to what is seen as the inherent strenghts of > FreeBSD and BSDI. Obviously most O/S systems proclaim to have some > strenght that sets them apart from the rest. Does either of these > packages have a significant feature, apart from their availabiltiy and > affordability etc. BSDI costs money FreeBSD doesn't you pay extra for BSDI sources FreeBSD sources come with it.. FreeBSD has better disk IO BSDI can sell you a service contract freebsd, you have to find your own expert.. BSDI has slightly better support of things such as synchronous IO what do you want to DO with it? > I hope you can assist me with these queries and thank you in advance > > Regards > > Gavin Forrest > > >