From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 17:03:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15095 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15088 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA08662; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 20:03:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id UAA05224; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 20:03:09 -0400 (EDT) To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" cc: Damian Hamill , Jim Dixon , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: news server source for 95/NT In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:44:14 PDT." <33975D5E.2039@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 20:03:09 -0400 Message-ID: <5222.865555389@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote in message ID <33975D5E.2039@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>: > (Hmm.. I don't want a FBSD vs NT war, ...not on this list :-) ). Me neither :) > 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. Actually, there is another reason to ignore MOST commercial OSs for USENET News server deployment (unless you can also get the source license). Basically, there are SOO many tweaks you can make to get extra performance out of the box (like Clayton O'Neills cunning patch to allow you to open files by inode numbers, saving you doing directory tree traversal, and keeping the majority of CPU in userland rather tha in the kernel) that a commercial OS would stop you from doing. (Unless, of course, you go with Sprint, MCI and BBN and get the Cyclone News `router') Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info