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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:02:38 +0000
From:      Leigh Porter <leigh@wisper.net>
To:        Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
Cc:        Vincent Defert <vdefert@trace.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Message-ID:  <34E31D1D.12F26E10@wisper.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980212162047.24814A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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Konrad Heuer wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Vincent Defert wrote:
>
> > I am using an old version of Linux and I consider upgrading.
> > FreeBSD seems to have a very positive image, but the same is
> > true of Linux.
> >
> > Could you please explain the main differences between them,
> > and why people who tested both systems chose FreeBSD rather
> > than Linux?

I had exactly the same Dilemma for our News services. I used Linux
exclisivlyfor everything but then news got *REALLY* busy and it was taking
too long
to track fixes/ups/downs of the Linux kernel.

I knew FreeBSD was rock solid but the solid versions were far less advanced
in some
aspects than the Linux kernels that were currently avaliable. I went the
FreeBSD way for
news and am still working on getting up it (Busy you know :) hence the
question I
sent earlier about the CCD drivers.

My conslusion:

Linux is great for workstations, I use it for all my workstations and LOVE
it, I know the
kernel well and it has good utils and nice bits :)

FreeBSD is great for servers that are mission critical, heavily loaded and
need to be up
all the time, saying that I run Linux on our name, database, www, mail etc
servers
and they never give me any problems, all work perfectly. But for News, the
big one
that we have running on 5 machines each with 2 100bT cards in and lots of
RAID
things Linux just did not keep up well - I have HIGH hopes for FreeBSD!

BSD I have seen is also a LOT easier to track, Linux is busy!

--
Leigh Porter





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