Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:08:13 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 21st Century Unix - web serving Message-ID: <v04210105b4fd673df762@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <38D74CB3.DF3AA476@newsguy.com> References: <200003210130.KAA74668@daniel.sobral> <v04210100b4fcc78c7165@[128.113.24.47]> <38D74CB3.DF3AA476@newsguy.com>
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At 7:19 PM +0900 3/21/00, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Note that what I'm really hoping here is that someone will pipe up > > and say "Oh, yes, I have no trouble running ColdFusion on FreeBSD", > > which would be encouraging to me... :-) Maybe it can be run under > > linux emulation, but given that all this machine will be doing is > > web-serving and ColdFusion, then there seems little point in using > > FreeBSD if the only way to run ColdFusion is via linux emulation. > >Not Linux "emulation". There is _no_ emulation done. It's plain ABI >compatibility. We just "run" the Linux stuff. Good point. Bad choice of words on my part. Still, while Linux ABI compatibility is definitely much better than linux "emulation", it will still raise an extra layer of finger-pointing when anything goes wrong with ColdFusion. Even if the linux compatibility *is* perfectly right, when we contact the vendor of ColdFusion with any problem report, the first thing they will (probably) do is say "Are you sure that isn't a problem from running Linux binaries under FreeBSD?", or simply "We just don't support ColdFusion under FreeBSD, sorry.". If that does happen, then our only recourse will be to have a backup machine lying around which DOES run linux, just so we can recreate any bugs on the platform the vendor actually supports. >Now, you think there is little point, but, as a matter of fact, there >is. FreeBSD has advantages over Linux. Some claim a faster IP stack, and >I'd be really amazed if our SCSI stuff didn't leave Linux SCSI way >behind for anything but the simpler configurations, for instance. But >more important, in my opinion, is FreeBSD ability to handle *LOAD*. You are preaching to the choir. *I* do want this department to use FreeBSD, but at the same time I don't want to be dragged into their setup every time some problem with ColdFusion pops up. They like the idea of using Linux just because it has more press and they do have some experience with it. I can probably convince them into running FreeBSD, but I don't have the time to keep convincing them to use freebsd if any problems come up with running ColdFusion. The only purpose of this machine is to run ColdFusion, so if there is any hint that using FreeBSD causes a problem for that then they will simply not bother with FreeBSD. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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