Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:26:21 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: age check :) Message-ID: <19981011202621.A16321@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <19981010133249.B21109@mrmell>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:32:49PM -0400 References: <19981009200951.60385@welearn.com.au> <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810092152480.23539-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> <19981010133249.B21109@mrmell>
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On Sat 1998-10-10 (13:32), Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > If you happen to be at university, try comparing the ratio of > fourth&fifth years running-Linux:running-FreeBSD to the ratio of first > years running-Linux:running-FreeBSD. > > That'll probably give you a more accurate answer. Probably a little > more satisfying answer, too. :) That definately doesn't work at my university, since the Honours and above people seem pretty dedicated to Linux, which is what they really first got interested in. I've managed to convert an Honours student, and a third year student (the only one who used Linux), and a few of my fellow second years, and most of the first-years that use Linux. Of course, most of them use the student server, which runs FreeBSD, and has quite a history (if anyone remember Geoff Rehmet from 386BSD-conversion days...) and about 550 user accounts, with an average of 40 people logged on during the day, so convincing them that FreeBSD will do the job has been quite easy. :) As an example, we had a Linux machine hosting a Practical Marking System server, which the CS1s (over 120 at a time) would look at through their browsers, and it would run CGIs in the background querying databases, and similar fun things, running on similar hardware, fall over after the first few minutes. The system was moved to the FreeBSD system, which handled it fine, and had, in addition, about 30 people logged on at the time. (This was a stupid test in the beginning, because the person who designed the system never asked the resident webmaster-type-thing (me) on how best to handle the system, and didn't use mod_perl, and similar fun things on either machine.) Of course, I'm sure there are tons of valid reasons why the Linux machine could have fallen over without insulting the operating system itself, but it did manage to convince people that FreeBSD was more stable. Anyway, after all that, I'm 20 and 2 weeks or so. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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