Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:45:18 -0500 From: Jacob Suter <jsuter@linus.intrastar.net> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT Message-ID: <33D537FE.C43837E6@linus.intrastar.net> References: <199707222142.OAA03553@MindBender.serv.net>
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I gotta say one (compound) word... BULLSHIT. I've ran NT 3.51, 4.0, both Workstation and Server, and NEITHER have been able to stay up for more than a week or so with the same amount of speed and stability as when it started. I have had FreeBSD machines up for several months and never go down for anything other than hardware upgrades. Microsoft is CONSUMER GRADE SHIT and I wouldn't trust it if Bill Gates begged me to spank him tell he's raw if I have any complaints... My customer LOVED it when I upgraded to FreeBSD on the SAME EXACT hardware I was running NT on... even on their sorry little 14.4k and 28.8ks they could TELL the difference when picking up mail, or even simple tasks like DNS. I don't buy Microsoft, and all of those that have put their ass on the line using NT and got it burned, probably agree... Jacob Suter Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > >>> and expertise, > >>> most of us working on this project do not know much about Unix > (only basic > >>> knowledge) but in turn know NT in and out. > > >> If you are going to use NT for a large web server, I suggest you > to > >>choose other kind of business immediately. > > Right now, the free Unix systems (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc.) are probably > the best platforms for a small ISP, for many reasons. However, > Microsoft is starting to take this market seriously, so expect to see > lots of software addressing this market in the next year or two. > > >I'm just using NT for web browsing and mail and I need to reboot > >it every other day or so (just gets real slow)...It MIGHT be easier > to > >set up (I dont think it is....), but if something stops working you > have > >to reinstall to get everything to work right again...its certainly > much more > >difficult to fine tune. > > I would guess that you have software doing something stupid, or you > have something badly configured. Any OS can slow to a crawl if there > are user processes leaking memory, or just written badly that suck up > a lot of CPU, which are long-running (or just plain run-away) on your > system. > > NT by itself (and NT with tons of development tools and such open) > runs for weeks at a time without reboots, for me, and thousands of > others. Modern NT servers (as opposed to "workstations", which you > described) are every bit as stable as Unix servers, with months of > uptime. FYI... > > --------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon > michaelv@MindBender.serv.net > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, > Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > --------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------
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