From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 08:33:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA19761 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:33:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA19753 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA03951; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:34:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:34:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199603071634.LAA03951@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD comparison - it's time, I think! Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> 3 to 1? Wow! I wonder which web server they used (Apache?). Presumably >> they used the same server software on each machine (I know, let's put > >They used NCSA httpd-1.3 on both machines, identical hardware. > >> missing" or "Does it bother you that Linux..." I'm pretty decent at >> marketing principles, I think that without excessive "negative >> campaigning" we can take some pretty big shots at the Linux crowd, who >> will hopefully say, "Yeah, I just got used to that Linux limitation. I >> didn't know FreeBSD could do that!". Unfortunately, Linux does many things (more than FreeBSD)...it just does very few things well. You'll get beaten to death if you try to go "feature to feature". db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX