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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        Steve <steve@linux.sjs.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd Questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.94.960731124045.11797l-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960731141745.23316C-100000@linux.sjs.com>

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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Steve wrote:

> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:33:33 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Steve <steve@linux.sjs.com>
> 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).






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