Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:36:41 +0100 From: "Peter McGarvey" <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> To: "Siris Vasilios" <vsiris@csi.forth.gr> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: What do newbies do with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <000a01bea1db$1a1d7340$24603fc1@brick.it-dept.rncm.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199905190911.MAA14915@sappho-lane.ics.forth.gr>
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> Hello folks.
Greetings.
>
> Here's my testimony of what newbies do with FreeBSD.
>
[snippage]
>
> Indeed, everything has gone so smoothly that the other workstations
> I will be purchasing (to be used for analyzing traces), will definitely be
> Pentium boxes running FreeBSD. Why ? Well simply because my software
> runs on the Pentium (450Mhz w/256 MB) over three times faster than
> on our Enterprise and Ultra servers...
I'd just like to check something here.
Are you talking about _SUN_ Enterprise and Ultra Servers running Solaris?
And are you also saying that FreeBSD on a P450 w.450MB will out perform
similar spec machines or any machine?
It's just that we are getting a Sun E250 and I'd like to know what to
expect.
Also, I've seen articles saying that Linux is cool but if you want a high
performance OS for mission critical apps Solaris is the way to go.
Get the impression that FreeBSD is suffering from a distinct lack of
marketing?
>
> As for administration? Well, when you learn how OSs should be built
> and grow up using BSD, then I think the task of administrating
> such a workstation will be at least less frightening than, e.g.,
> administrating the NT workstation I have on my desk...
You know sometines I look at our NT server and feel the urge to weep. What
a waste of a nice PII-450 w. 256MB and Ultra2 SCSI IO.
You know last night I used CVSup and "make world" for the first time. I had
absolutely no problems upgrading the whole OS to 3.2-STABLE.
The last service pack I installed on the NT box gave me a whole day of
problems.
>
> Of course the above are my opinion...
ditto.
TTFN, FNORD
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