From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 12 16:47:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E29C37B42C for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 16703 invoked by uid 100); 12 Apr 2001 23:47:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15062.15995.127835.490040@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:47:07 -0500 To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River In-Reply-To: <20010412061155.B251809@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> References: <117124895@toto.iv> <15061.13268.347161.47426@guru.mired.org> <20010412061155.B251809@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> types: > > Or an el-cheapo box built out of spare parts. I have one server on a > > book pc, just to conserve space. > > This I know first-hand ;) What I meant was -- given a small home, > Server-based LAN (a FBSD gateway box, a win9x box and another FBSD box) > where the FBSD gateway box is performing as a Server by-and-large -- > there is no reason why Apache could not be transfered to the 2nd FBSD box > is there - even though it was being used more as a "desktop" than as a > "Server"? Nothing, actually. Then again, the same thing is true of Windows boxes. I wouldn't recommend it because of the stability issues, though. Then again, I don't use Windows on my desk because of the stability issues, either. The one technical thing that the typical Unix system brings to the party that Windows doesn't is the ability to run programs that drive the user interface either on the desktop system - the one with the display hardware - or on servers out on the network. I've actually run Netscape on a box sitting at the other end of a 56K leased line, drawing bits on my end. Watching it compete with itself to fetch the pages from the web server running locally was - um - interesting. Some of the more advanced - and pretty much defunct - Unix windowing systems would let you move code from the client to the server. This has interesting implications for load balancing, but I don't know if anyone has done the work required to take proper advantage of that. OSX seems to be using that technology, and may have that functionality. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message