From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 15:17:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17ABD37B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7227 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2000 22:17:49 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 2 Oct 2000 22:17:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 3045 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2000 22:17:48 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 2 Oct 2000 22:17:48 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:16:54 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: "'keith@mail.telestream.com '" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org '" Subject: RE: Linux/FreeBSD decision Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:11:54 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That should be fairly easy. Linux kids want to think they are using UNIX. Tell him that FreeBSD is more like UNIX than Linux... (Use of raw devices, for example, is not well supported in Linux. More efficient memory management, excellent overall OS stability, etc.) Also, the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack is about the best you'll find anywhere, no questions. Quite an important consideration for a DNS server and Mailhost. And yes, upgrading packages and recompiling the kernel become almost trivial with FreeBSD, whereas with Linux it is very hit and miss (in my experience) Add to that the quality and speed of support available from the mailing lists and other FreeBSD users, the quality of the man pages, the more favourable terms of the BSD license (have you ever bothered to read the GPL...?) The list is endless. FreeBSD, FreeBSD, FreeBSD. Dan -----Original Message----- From: keith@mail.telestream.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: 02/10/00 19:50 Subject: Linux/FreeBSD decision I have a client that wants to run Linux on a couple of servers. One a DNS server and one a Mail server. I'm charged with setting it all up and getting him up and rolling. I've suggested that he go with FreeBSD instead or Linux. He's has asked why? I found myself stammering for reasons, I've always chose FreeBSD over linux for personal reasons. . I need something I can tell this guy that he would relate to since he's obviously jumped onto the linux rage of the day simply because people have told him it's the best. Any info people can suggest that I could use as ammunition would be great. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message