Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:33:36 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General Questions Message-ID: <3A5DC440.963E9830@mail.iowna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101110808250.74730-100000@squid.tznet.com>
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Scott Pilz wrote: > For ISP ussage, what is recommended, SunOS or FreeBSD? That's a stupid question to ask on a FreeBSD mailing list, as just about everyone is going to say FreeBSD! > Can FreeBSD run on Sun hardware that is apx. 2 years old? Does it run > well? What about Sun hardware that is running more than one proccessor? No, look at NetBSD or OpenBSD. > Are FreeBSD and Sun very different from one another? (I realize unix is > unix, as windows is windows, and dos is dos, however the command > structures I'm slightly confused about) Yes and no. In some ways VERY different, in others, pretty similar. > In the long run, I hope to switch these Sun boxes to BSD, I'm *sold* on > BSD, atleast for ISP aspects, is this a good idea to switch, or is it > worth while learning another OS because Sun offers more than BSD? Probably not. I don't think there is anything that will run on a Sun box better than the Sun OS. I could be wrong, however. > Looking for the *best* hardware to buy for FreeBSD. Any paticular > motherboards, hard drives, proccessors that seem to work better with > FreeBSD than others? We may be looking at Raid hot-swapable drives, is > this a good idea? if so anyone running any paticular hardware we should > purchase? Personally, we use ASUS motherboards with AMD processors. Have had great success. We've also been very pleased with the Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapters, altho FreeBSD doesn't support full 160M/s access (runs flawlessly in 80m/s mode). IBM HDDs and ATI video generally top things off. Hardware RAID is usually a good idea, and hot swap drives are an even better idea. We haven't had a need that justified the cost thus yet (anything we put RAID into we can afford to take down for an hour to replace a drive if it fails) so I can't specifically recommend anything. If you can't justify the cost of hardware RAID, vinum works very well. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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