From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 16:14:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12754 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co ([168.176.15.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA12731; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem11.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.41]) by ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA07134; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:15:21 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <33975D5E.2039@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:44:14 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Palmer CC: Damian Hamill , Jim Dixon , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news server source for 95/NT References: <28374.865534564@orion.webspan.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Hmm.. I don't want a FBSD vs NT war, ...not on this list :-) ). It's my mistake, although the original discussion in the hackers list was about news servers, the conclusion was that we rule the DNS market, not the news market ;-/. Anyway it isn't a secret that NT is much more popular that Linux, FreeBSD and OS2 together. As I stated privately to an NT enthusiast, even if the performance tests gave the contrary results of what we see today, I would still prefer FreeBSD because it's free and I don't depend on M$. I'm not at all interested in going to the old scheme of buying a C compiler and many user licenses in addition to the OS. Pedro. Gary Palmer wrote: > > "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote in message ID > <3396FAA7.4710@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>: > > Search the old postings in the hacker's list, this was discussed some > > time ago (with some stats in hand). Almost no one uses NT for a full > > feed, in fact the top news servers use FreeBSD. > > Actually, I 99% sure that at least 7 of the top 9 are SPARC/Solaris > boxes (the only ones I am not sure of are syr.edu and clark.net. No 10 > (feed1.news.erols.com) is a x86 running Linux :-/ The first FreeBSD > box I know of is newsfeeds.sol.net at 24. I can identify at least 4 or > 5 others though. I'm sure Joe could highlight more that I don't know > of :-) > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info