Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 01:23:16 -0700 From: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com> To: bitter@noah.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need comparative data Message-ID: <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com> References: <67650953.933580567520.JavaMail.nobody@shell5.ba.best.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2A4C2EBBF91270884F803FF8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One quick point re: FreeBSD - as a high-volume server - vs. Linux: Yahoo! = FreeBSD cdrom.com = FreeBSD redhat.com = FreeBSD World record for most data transferred in a day: cdrom.com, Pentium Pro 200, FreeBSD = 900+ gigabytes of data transferred. Actually, I guess that would be 4 points. Bone successfully thrown? ;-) RAB bitter@noah.org wrote: > I've been browsing through the mail archives look for the > "Linux Versus FreeBSD" type messages. They all seem to go something > like this: > > Newbie Q:"What's the difference between Linux and FreeBSD?" > Guru A:"It all depends on what you want and even if I knew > the answer I would not tell you because I refuse to > lower myself by getting involved in a religious OS war." > > I'm coming from a large company that uses mostly Sun Solaris and a bit of WinNT. > A group of us is trying to put together a low cost system to run a load > balanced web server (currently 4 Ultra2 running Netscape Enterprise server) > with some server side database application code. We're a bit tired of Sun and > we are fed up with Netscape. We are currently evaluating Linux versus FreeBSD > (originally we were considering WinNT, but we have a lot of legacy scripts > that make the web server work. Also I was the only WinNT advocate and when > it was suggested that my penis might not be big enough I finally relented > and decided to stick with a UNIX variant. But which one?) > > As far as administration and support goes I think it's clear that Linux > has a big advantage. Many packages (like Apache and Squid) come prebuilt > in RPM format. Also Linux seems to have good Java support. > > As far as performance and reliability go I have not seen any arguments > one way or another. I suspect that FreeBSD is more stable (another reason > we decided against WinNT). Also, it seems that FreeBSD might be more > modular. We would like to remove as much crap as possible to get a clean > and easy to maintain system. But I don't have any real reason to believe > that Linux isn't dependable compared to WinNT. > > We could also stick with Solaris since the Intel Solaris licenses are not > very expensive. Solaris is pretty good as far as I can tell, but I'm not > real fond of the Sun techs. > > One thing I keep reading is that "Linux and FreeBSD are really more alike > than they are different." If that is true than can someone give me one > reason why I should use FreeBSD? If all the support and momentum is with > Linux then why risk going with FreeBSD? > > "Throw me a bone here people..." > > Yours, > Noah > bitter@noah.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------2A4C2EBBF91270884F803FF8 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rbettle.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Roy Bettle Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rbettle.vcf" begin:vcard n:Bettle;Roy tel;work:(949) 452-1203 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.criterion-group.com org:Criterion Group, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:rbettle@criterion-group.com title:President note:Businesses that depend on computers, depend on us. adr;quoted-printable:;;26895 Aliso Creek Road=0D=0ASuite B404;Aliso Viejo;CA;92656;USA fn:Bettle, Roy end:vcard --------------2A4C2EBBF91270884F803FF8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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