From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 11:12:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C5A16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:12:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A69543D2F for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:12:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B64FD01F; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:12:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420DE485.7040308@locolomo.org> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:12:05 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050127 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peterhin References: <200502112313.28082.hindrich@worldchat.com> In-Reply-To: <200502112313.28082.hindrich@worldchat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Anthony Atkielski cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:12:08 -0000 Peterhin wrote: > "Linux is inferior to FreeBSD, and yet it is taken more seriously > because of the atmosphere around it, despite its technical inferiority" You can find countless comparisons suporting either as superior - just the recent mysql benchmark supports linux/gentoo. This kind of comparison is hardly relevant today, it is almost always cheaper to throw more hardware on than trying to get the most of what you have - just how many more machines could you have bought for a months salary? I think FreeBSD is superior, not necesarily in every line of code or every technical detail, and not necesarily in raw performance, allthough this is often claimed. I think FreeBSD boosts administrator performance. I spend less time maitaining my systems and resolving dependencies or debugging, than I did on RedHat, Debian or Gentoo. That time is precious, this is where you can save on the IT budget, so using FreeBSD is a good investment. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2