Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:07:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: jan.brolund@sida.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or LINUX??? - Which one should I choose? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980724090355.431A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <TFSJWSPD@sida.se>
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 jan.brolund@sida.se wrote:
> Hej, (to anybody who is kind enough to help me to choose between
> FreeBSD and Linux!)
> (...)
> choice - please? Is there any significant difference between FreeBSD
> and Linux or can I just flip a coin? Is it correct that FreeBSD is
> more stable - because new FreeBSD releases/upgrades are tested more
> intensively - than Linux, or is that just hearsay?
As I wrote some days before to someone else:
* To my mind there are no overall differences in the functionality
of both systems.
* Of course there are minor differences wich can be important depending on
what you want to do, e.g.:
- more commercial software for Linux
- greater popularity of Linux
- file size is still limited to 2 GB with Linux ext2fs
- FreeBSD NFS performs much better (especially NFS client write)
- Linux scheduling algorithm is poor on high system load
(THUS - to run an internet server I'd prefer FreeBSD!)
* The Linux development model is more liberal, the more restrictive
FreeBSD model guarantees uniform source code and better stability.
* Strictly spoken, Linux is just the kernel. The rest of the operating
system is added by the distributors like S.u.S.E., RedHat, Debian,
Slackware. FreeBSD is kernel plus UNIX utilities. man pages, config
files and so on.
* FreeBSD evolved from the BSD branch of UNIX and thus is a UNIX
derivative. Linux started from Tanenbaum's Minix and is a
reimplementation of the UNIX interface.
Konrad Heuer
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