Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:35:52 -0500 (EST) From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - A User's Point of View Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901240035110.800-100000@insomnia.local.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990123030913.20784A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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> My current arguments (of different quality) for FreeBSD are: > > 1. FreeBSD has an excellent pedigree. > 2. For someome who has experiences with SunOS, Ultrix etc. FreeBSD is > more familiar. > 3. Linux is a kernel plus distributor's work, FreeBSD is a complete > operating system. > 4. Linux NFS performance is bad. > 5. Linux process scheduling algorithm is worse than that of FreeBSD if > system load is high. > 6. As far as I've observed, the virtual memory system of FreeBSD > behaves better. > 7. The Linux kernel has internal limits (e.g. max number of open > files) which may cause troubles on bigger systems. Don't forget this one: 8. The Linux filesystem, ext2, is _evil_ and not to be trusted. > > Regards > > // > // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ > // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ > // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / > // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ > // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- > // http://www.freebsd.org > // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de > // > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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