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To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: linux vs freebsd testimonial 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 15:37:19 -0800
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>A few weeks ago, my single linux box fried.  I replaced both the hard
>drive (with an identicle one) and linux with freebsd 2.1.5.
>
>The machine runs majordomo, ftp, apache, and an irc server.
>
>The performance is way up there!  Under linux it would frequently slug
>down to a crawl.  under FreeBSD it just keeps zipping along.
>
>There is a very definite noticable difference in response and load
>handling.

   Thanks for the note...it's always good to see where we are with respect to
the competition.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project