From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 23:40:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB8437BB57 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA21945; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:39:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:39:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: p_a_r Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD VS BDS In-Reply-To: <81491281.2.1636@mx1-12.onmedia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, p_a_r wrote: > Can anyone tell me the differens in FreeBSD and NetBSD. I would like=20 > to set up 2 internet servers whitch one should i take? Well, there's some risk to answer the question - someone may feel his/her favourite os to be treated inadequately. The most important strength of NetBSD is its availability on many different hardware platforms. If you plan to set up your servers on Intel or DECalpha software, FreeBSD might do better for you. For example, FreeBSD supports multi-processor systems, NetBSD does not. The FreeBSD install program is more user-friendly. Both, FreeBSD and NetBSD, are very solid os; but my experience is not to buy too cheap hardware for servers. The last times I set up server systems I decided to spend some more money to buy Dell hardware to run FreeBSD on, and the systems are exceedingly stable. Before, I used cheaper hardware and observed too often spontaneous reboots under heavy load I could not explain. Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message