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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:37:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Mike Urban <murban@webzone.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD for Web server?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906181032540.45515-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <32CB3A23.DB734EBB@webzone.net>

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On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Mike Urban wrote:

> 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?

There has been a study published by the Gartner Group some month ago
illustrating that a web server running Apache on FreeBSD can handle about
50% more requests per time unit than Apache on Linux (identical hardware,
of course).

I think, the URL was
http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html,
but it seems to be outdated now.

Regards

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