Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:44:14 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>, Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news server source for 95/NT Message-ID: <33975D5E.2039@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <28374.865534564@orion.webspan.net>
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(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
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