From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 16:11:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8457414D01 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from psych (idxwc07-19.idx.com.au [203.166.2.19]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA07853; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:07:45 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991203110908.006c3b50@pop.idx.com.au> X-Sender: dannyh@pop.idx.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:09:09 +1100 To: Sheldon Hearn , "O.Trofileeva" From: Danny Subject: Re: FreeBSD against Linux Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:47 2/12/99 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The only way you can find out for yourself:- Borrow a copy of Linux and a copy of Freebsd for whatever job you have in mind. Then do a parallel implementation where you run both Linux and Freebsd at the same time then make a rational decision and take down Linux or Freebsd depending on what the better platform is. > >On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 12:14:11 +0300, "O.Trofileeva" wrote: > >> My question is global. What operational system is better: FreeBSD or Linux? >> What are advantages and disadvantages of each one? > >Asking that question here is more than likely to annoy lots of people >with a thread in which unqualified bigots offer you uneducated opinions. > >Do yourself a favour and search the world-wide web, then try both >platforms for yourself or choose the one that seems to fit your >requirements given the opinions and commentary of others. > >> Where can I get such a comparative evaluation? > >Benchmarks can be constructed in such as way as to make either operating >system outperform the other. Your question can't be answered outside of >the context of your requirements. > >This is really old news in the freebsd-questions mailing list archives, >by the way. Do you know that you can search the archives at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists > >Ciao, >Sheldon. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message