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From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD
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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
> --
> Jonathan M. Bresler           FreeBSD Postmaster             jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
> FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/
> PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint:      31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13  C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
> 


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