From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 09:57:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA13154 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:57:42 -0800 Received: from esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us (esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us [162.127.3.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA13148 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:57:40 -0800 Received: by esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us; id AA29983; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 11:58:48 -0600 Message-Id: <9503061758.AA29983@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 11:58:22 -0600 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: cwelch@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us (Craig Welch) Subject: Linux or FreeBSD Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Actually, I'm following the advice of your web page and directing a less-web related question here. I want to set up a more or less "mission critical" environment to provide internet E-Mail, gopher, ftp, etc and mix it with a PC filespace. So, I'm thinking of either an NFS solution of some kind, or possibly SAMBA (SMB based tcpip server, freeware...) and I want to have some feedback on whether Linux or FreeBSD would be the best vehicle. I presently run Linux, have for some time, happy with it, but I often hear that BSD is supposed to perform better under load. Is this true? Are there any hard numbers on this? Is there any info out there on which (Linux or BSD) has the larger user or development base? I've noticed that the ftp.cdrom.com (official distribution site) runs on BSD, is this for performance or other reasons? Thanks, all info greatly appreciated... ______________________________________ \ Craig Welch \ \ \ \ Technology Facilitator \ \ Millard North High School, \ \ Omaha, Nebraska \ \ cwelch@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us \ \ \ \ !!REPEAL MURPHY'S LAW!! \ \ (Petitions available upon request) \ \_____________________________________\