From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 2:33:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shalimar.net.au (shalimar.net.au [198.142.161.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CD437B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 02:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from shalimar.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shalimar.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAEAWhb35660; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:32:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from count@shalimar.net.au) From: Zero Sum Organization: Tobacco Chewers and Body Painters Association. Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:32:43 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Alexander Rudak , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <13407.001114@ro.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <13407.001114@ro.com.ua> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0011142132431P.00417@shalimar.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tuesday 14 November 2000 18:46, Alexander Rudak wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I apologize in advance for the question. It was arised not so long > time ago. > Our company is going to start big BTB project with hosting, webshops, > etc. I have been using FreeBSD for the past 1.5 years, but now I have > a doubt which system to use FreeBSB or Linux. The reasons are simple > Linux is a developer OS (?), it is more flexible (?) and almost every serious > company has Linux version of its product (?). > Does anybody have any suggestions? Anything would be greatly > appreciated. > Linux is no more a developer OS than FreeBSD is, or more correctly, they both are. If anything Linux is less flexible than FreeBSD. If you want to use a linux product. That is OK. The linux emulation is more than adequate. Points in favour of FreeBSD. It scales to a server better. It is considerably more secure than any Linux (or can be made so). It's releases of software (packages and ports) is controlled through a central point. Less "buying a pig in a poke". I think reliability is considerably better than most linuxen. Geoff -- count@shalimar.net.au Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: v9RJN3EMZYxG95xofknvmG9SONm4DZOj iQA/AwUBOhEUy/h4xz7LU/evEQJBkQCggVy5yK9U1JBz62ioa0rBrFFCblIAn3AD hkQUdlVfP5rZs2UtswWU02Ul =kDI1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message