From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 17:08:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA19850 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:08:55 -0700 Received: from isgate.is (isgate.is [193.4.58.51]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA19833 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:08:45 -0700 Received: from hlunkur.islandia.is by isgate.is (8.6.10/ISnet/14-10-91); Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:08:20 GMT Received: by hlunkur.islandia.is (8.6.11/ISnet/12-09-94); Mon, 21 Aug 1995 23:57:58 GMT Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 23:57:58 +0000 () From: Hordur To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why freeBSD instead of Linux? In-Reply-To: <199508220012.JAA25082@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > You'd be surpriesd, actually. In terms of public perception, stability > under severe abuse and networking performance, there's a lot of > similarity in the comparison. Well i've never run freebsd or linux on heavly loaded machines so I can't judge either system, can you give some examples where linux has just failed when heavly loaded. (btw: i know ftp.cdrom.com is run on a freebsd box) Hordur Johannsson.