From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 2 19:15:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6610514D2B for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA27737; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:45:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA63514; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:45:17 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:45:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Roy Bettle Cc: bitter@noah.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need comparative data Message-ID: <19990803114516.K62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <67650953.933580567520.JavaMail.nobody@shell5.ba.best.com> <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37A55573.B112B738@criterion-group.com>; from Roy Bettle on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:23:16AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 1:23:16 -0700, Roy Bettle wrote: > bitter@noah.org wrote: >> One thing I keep reading is that "Linux and FreeBSD are really more alike >> than they are different." If that is true than can someone give me one >> reason why I should use FreeBSD? If all the support and momentum is with >> Linux then why risk going with FreeBSD? >> >> "Throw me a bone here people..." > > One quick point re: FreeBSD - as a high-volume server - vs. Linux: > > Yahoo! = FreeBSD > cdrom.com = FreeBSD > redhat.com = FreeBSD Where do you get that from? They'd be the last people to run FreeBSD. $ ftp ftp.redhat.com Connected to ftp.redhat.com. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre3 Server (Red Hat FTP) [pub.iad.redhat.com] Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message