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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:33:08 +0400
From:      Nugzar Nebieridze <nugzar@mbg.com.ge>
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: About Unix
Message-ID:  <1243859369.20010309103308@mbg.com.ge>
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Hello Doug,

Thursday, March 08, 2001, 6:46:32 PM, you wrote:

DY> Our machines are located at various remote sites & typically its difficult
DY> to get there at a moments notice.  The linux systems typically failed to
DY> re-start automatically whereas FreeBSD ones do.

I agree that fs for freebsd is better. The kernel of FreeBSD is also
writeen at higher level than Linux's, but the situation is rapidly
changing. I'm now using FreeBSD as my internet server, but during 3
years of using FreeBSD it also was stucked due to power fault and did
not restarted automatically because of fs fault. it happened twice
during these years maybe you consider that it is not often but anyway
it happened.

As for linux, I see the improvements that I do not see in FreeBSD.

1. Both systems need Journaling File Systems. (there are three
projects for linux: reiserfs, xfs (SGI) and jfx (IBM)). I did not hear
of any for FreeBSD.

2. I need good commercial SQL server for FreeBSD. (not MySQL, mSQL,
PostgreSQL and so on...) May be there are
some but did not find them and if you know where I can download them
any information is appreciated. For linux I already downloaded Oracle
SQL and Sybase SQL. There are also DB2 and Informix SQL-s.

3. I also need clustering solutions for both of these systems.
I heard about mosix for linux, what about BSD?

----------

I like BSD very much, but if situation does not change I think that
I'll have to svitch to Debian GNU/Linux. Besides they added some
functionality to their distribution like (for example automatic
updating of software from security.debian.org). So when a security
hole is found the system upgrades itself.

As for dicumentation, for linux there are a lot of HOWTOs. Where can I
find such documentation for FreeBSD? (only www.freebsddiary.org ???).

Don't treat me wrong, but I like both FreeBSD and Linux. Both of them
are stable, both of them are open source. But what I see is that Linux
is developing faster for me that is very important.

That was my 0.15



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