From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 13:42:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07242 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06924 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00752; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:37:19 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:37:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Humprey C. Sy" cc: John Winter , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interested in getting Free BSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Humprey C. Sy wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Doug White wrote: > > > > HI I am interested in getting a copy of Free BSD. I am also wondering if > > > Linux is comperable to this program. > > > > In the sense that it's a free UNIX, yes. In the sense that it's the same > > variant of UNIX (sysV) then no. > > I believe FreeBSD is much more "organized" as compared to Linux, with > respect to support, and source code. Linux may be more popular though, > so this might attest to its satisfactory performance. In my case, I'd > choose FreeBSD anytime. Most definitely. The organization was one of the primary reason FreeBSD got started here. A friend of mine liked the distribution system more than linux, and got hooked. > > I know of several FreeBSD Web servers (including mine) that are doing an > > excellent job. > > The usenix review also pointed out FreeBSD showed the best network > performance. Yes, but they did berate performance/caching and Pentium processor use across all three systems. I think it would be neat if we were the first to get some advanced techniques into place. > > > Is your program more easy to > > > set up than Linux? > > > > About as easy. A group ant Stanford who published a paper for Usenix > > thought that Linux was the easiest to install, then FreeBSD and Solaris x86. > > I really feel FreeSD is easier... Don't know how that report came to > show that result. Both Solaris and FreeBSD crashed during the initial install on a hardware hangup. We should make boot -c mandatory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major