Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!decwrl!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!shell1.best.com!not-for-mail From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD Date: 19 May 1995 18:22:08 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3pjg8h$8on@shell1.best.com> References: <3np0bj$mli@news.nde.state.ne.us> <3pgcq4$j5a@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <3picg1$mh2@inews.sc.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.best.com In article <3picg1$mh2@inews.sc.intel.com>, Mark F Willey <mwilley@xws331.sc.intel.com> wrote: >In article <3pgcq4$j5a@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>, lamaster@viking.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes: >|> In article <3np0bj$mli@news.nde.state.ne.us>, >|> cwelch@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us (Craig L Welch) writes: >|> >|> |> Oh course, I'm posting this on the NetBSD newsgroup, so perhaps I'm >|> |> already making the decision here, but I'm a Linux user lookig to support >|> |> more people on the same hardware, and just generally interested in tryig >|> |> something new (and perhaps more standard...) so, for me, this means >|> |> NetBSD / FreeBSD. Perhaps I'm just (foolishly) opening a can of worms, >|> |> but what to people suggest, NetBSD or FreeBSD. >|> >|> Good question. > >The question of the day, in fact. ;-) > >I'll just throw in my two cents by saying that my NetBSD machine supports about >ten people when I'm at school, and I never notice that they're on. ;-) The key, >I think, is to get a lot of memory. I also know of an ISP that's using NetBSD >for internal work, and I see no problem with using it in production. Indeed, any >BSD should work quite well. best.com, I believe is running BSDI's offering on a >P-90, with 100+ users online. (key again - lots of RAM) According to the And, so they tell us, already transitioning to FreeBSD. Russell