Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:34:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: kdupuis@ndt.gti.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607121834.MAA08202@shell.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <199607121728.KAA28833@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Jul 12, 96 10:28:23 am"
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As an aside, I was curious about this the other day, so I decided to
check up on it. I visited pht.com, who runs a fairly large FTP archive.
Not quite the size of cdrom.com, but they're quite large anyway. What did I
find?
fluffy /home/angio >> telnet pht.com
Trying 198.60.59.99...
Connected to pht.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 2.1
Linux Kernel Version 1.3.57 on an Intel Pentium-90
exodus.pht.com login:
*******
Then, I thought, "That's odd. I wonder what their FTP machine runs"
fluffy /home/angio >> telnet ftp.pht.com
Trying 198.60.59.5...
Connected to gandalf.pht.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeBSD (gandalf.pht.com) (ttyp0)
login: ^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
*******
heh heh heh.
-Dave Andersen
Lo and behold, Jonathan M. Bresler once said:
> Kenneth J. Dupuis wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't want to start a war but for a new ISP what are the strengths of
> > FreeBSD? The only thing I know is cdrom.com; enough said! I have years
>
> what more needs to be said? cdrom.com could have chosen any
> os they wanted. will your site's security needs be greater
> than theirs? will you need a more robust system than theirs?
>
> is there a linux site of comparable size/thruput/load/users?
> i dont know, i dont follow linux much.
>
> > of experience on Linux, SunOS, Solaris, and AIX. We need something that's
> > very robust and *secure* (recently had a break-in on a Slackware 3.0 Linux
> > server).
>
> jmb
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