From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 08:03:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17642 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17636 Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199604161503.IAA17636@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which OS? Linux or FreeBSD To: Mike.Smith@turner.com Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, big-linux@netspace.org In-Reply-To: <173aeab0@turner.com> from "Mike.Smith@turner.com" at Apr 16, 96 10:18:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike.Smith@turner.com wrote: > > I want to buy a unix like OS and am > considering either FreeBSD or Linux. Are there any comparisons out > there? I have heard great things about both OS's and am having a hard > time making a decision. Any strong opinions on either OS? at this year's Usenix conference tow people from stanford compared older version of FreeBSD Linux and Solaris. read the paper and judge for yourself. the identical hardware was used for all tests. http://plastique.stanford.edu/~laik/benchmarks/index.html read this with an eye toward your own requirements (eg fast disk, network spped, context switching, multiuser stability .....) -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/