From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 21:39:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226441065684 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from thenetnow.com (thenetnow.com [69.90.69.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04DD8FC15 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:39:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=GRANT) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KiFb3-0005sw-7l for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:39:01 -0400 Message-ID: <8C1536C109064AD5A92F8609916AB2CB@GRANT> From: "Grant Peel" To: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:38:57 -0400 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Subject: Server - Linux Compat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:39:02 -0000 Hi all, When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql, vmpop3d, PHP, Exim and shh...not to mention a few utils, ipa, ipfw etc. Does anyone have any compelling reason I should continue to enable linux compatability? Are there any pitfalls (Security, Performance) in doing so? -Grant