From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 12:43:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA20208 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA20195 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA13868; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:43:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:43:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Steve cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Steve wrote: > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:33:33 -0400 (EDT) > From: Steve > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Freebsd Questions > > (1.) Can Freebsd do IP aliasing, i.e. multiple ip addresses on one NIC > interface? Yes, trivially. > > (2.) Is there a Motif port available for Freebsd? Yes. X-Inside, and others. > > (3.) Does Apache's VirtualHost http daemon compile and run under Freebsd? Yes, trivially. > > (4.) Is Xmgr, ImageMagick, and Ghostscript available with FreeBsd? Xmgr I don't recall, but the others yes, trivially. > > (5.) I understand that the IP stack implementation on Freebsd is much more > robust than Linux which makes Freebsd perform much better as a Web > server, is this true? This is more of a religious issue, but I would say that this is probably true. I think that IP stack implementation in and of itself would be a rather poor metric to use to distinguish the servers. Lots has to do with script processing performance (fork/exec and friends), data safety (FreeBSD does sync metadata writes by default, Linux apparently comes with this turned off, so a potential for more dataloss is there).