From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 21 14:39:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3928237B4C5 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-141.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.141]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA26161; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:25:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39F209DF.88368125@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:25:51 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederik Meerwaldt Cc: "phpStop.com" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to > > choose from to drive our website. > > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster. Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly documented, finding sources for them is MUCH easier in FreeBSD. Linux is a patchwork of independent packages, and tracking down what came from where and was patched by what is usually not easy. Also commercial distributions of Linux sometimes tend to "lose" parts of sources, so that you will not always be able to re-compile the stuff at all. There's been a short period when I worked on building a Linux distribution and that was a quite special experience. I you would want to get a Linux after all I would strongly recommend getting a free distribution like Debian or Slackware. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message