From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 9: 7:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCAFB14D28 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25812; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Terry Lambert Cc: David Schwartz , scrappy@hub.org, beyssac@enst.fr, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? In-Reply-To: <199907140135.SAA22506@usr02.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > In general, an operating system should be used for what it does best. If > > FreeBSD doesn't run INN very well, use Solaris or Linux. And don't upgrade > > production servers without making sure the new operating system version can > > handle the job well. > > > > At WebMaster, we have NT servers, Linux servers, FreeBSD servers, Sparc > > servers, and an Irix server. We use each machine for what it does best. > > I'd be interested in a list of things that FreeBSD doesn't do as > well as the other servers. I can give you a list of things from my experience (not a webmaster.com employee). Threads, SMP, NFS, and purify. I can't think of anything NT does better than any unix though. :) Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message