From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 9 7: 8: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB29237B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:07:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22911; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:00:30 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdv22909; Sat Mar 10 01:00:25 2001 Message-ID: <002f01c0a8a9$cd0b8ec0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Nugzar Nebieridze" , References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308131205.A1029@okb.lv> <024301c0a7de Subject: Re: Re[2]: About Unix Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:01:18 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don't tell me there is somewhere on the planet with worse power problems than Queensland Australia !!!! I hear California is pretty bad but maybe the problem is more widespread than that. Our problems with linux were a bit more regular than twice in three years .... more like once a month. I'm not aware of any recent linux improvements that make it a better server O/S, however it would take something quite dramatic before I'd consider installing linux again. Anything to do with workstation apps / GUIs etc are totally irrelevant to me. > 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. Late versions of Oracle definitely work in FreeBSD .... I don't like Sybase (too similar to that dog of all databases, Microsoft SQL Server). I haven't used DB2 or Informix recently, why bother when Oracle does everything properly ?? > > 3. I also need clustering solutions for both of these systems. > I heard about mosix for linux, what about BSD? Dunno about that issue at all ..... if clustering isn't supported in BSD I'd be running SCO rather than linux. > > ---------- > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message