From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 22 17:38:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580BE37B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-143.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.143]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA10220; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:38:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39F38893.6A8204A@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:38:43 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederik Meerwaldt , "phpStop.com" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux References: <39F3609E.83C02B3E@bellatlantic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to > > > > > choose from to drive our website. > > > > > > > > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster. > > > > > > Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly > > > documented, finding sources for them is MUCH easier in FreeBSD. Linux > > > > Huh?! What's strange in FreeBSD? > > Bugs do happen. Also things are sometimes changed faster than > being documented. Some things are just too timey or obvious for > being documented but matter when you are trying to find out why > your seemingly right script does not work as intended. By the way, speaking of that, things in FreeBSD tend to be more synchronous with docs than in Linux. Also FreeBSD has much better backwards compatibility (though alas still not as good as commercial systems). In Linux the applications tend to break and require recompilation when the kernel is upgraded to the next second-digit version. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message