From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 16:19: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.student.umd.edu (ppp-27-174.tidalwave.net [208.220.27.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F23156F5 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from glue.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poseidon.student.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00398; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:18:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <37698231.4C21888C@glue.umd.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:18:09 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: murban@webzone.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD for Web server? References: <32CB3A23.DB734EBB@webzone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Urban wrote: > > I'm very new to FreeBSD (I got it because I am setting up a web server), > but I have some experience with Linux. I have heard that FreeBSD is a > better platform for running a web server then Linux. This is why I got > it. Honestly, is this true? I am more familliar with Linux so I would > set the web server up under it. I know Linux would have no problem > handling it at first, but I want to allow for future growth without > having to change OS's later. > > I have nothing against FreeBSD. I am just familliar with Linux and not > FreeBSD. Do you think there would be a real benifit in learning FreeBSD? > Or should I just go with what I know? Is it true that FreeBSD will be a > lot better for running the web server? I set-up an Apache server on FreeBSD at school and it was no harder than the same on Linux. I'd even say it was easier, but I'm biased 'cause I love FreeBSD. My roomate and I put *nix on our personal machines the same day, he used Red Hat and I did FreeBSD. One year later we're both running FreeBSD. :) Brandon -- bfoz@glue.umd.edu "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message