Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 20:09:24 -0600 From: Alan Lundin <aflundi@lundin.abq.nm.us> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x Message-ID: <199606190209.UAA03501@localhost> In-Reply-To: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com> "Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x" (Jun 17, 11:22am)
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On Jun 17, 11:22am, "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" wrote: > Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x > [ ... ] > The sole area where they hold a stability advantage, IMHO, is in the area of > NFS file service. But certainly, if you have 10 licenses, you could use > those for your NFS file servers and run the rest of your plant on FreeBSD. > > That is basically the strategy we are taking here. Within another few > months the only places you're likely to see BSDI is in the NFS file service > arena -- unless FreeBSD gets those problems resolved first, in which case > we'll have a gecko-killing contest. Why not, instead, purchase a cool NFS file server like the Network Appliance "toaster"? (Check out http://www.netapp.com/.) It'll give you features and performance that you'll be hard pressed to find on a Unix (or any general purpose OS, for that matter) machine, and shouldn't cost that much. --alan
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