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Xref: sserve comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:603 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:1288 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!rsanders From: rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Web servers (was Re: NT server vs workstation for WWW server) Date: 21 May 1995 19:03:59 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3po2qv$ess@firehose.mindspring.com> References: <3p8afo$sb8@nntp.interaccess.com> <kowall-1705952052520001@ppp-81-24.bu.edu> <3pebt2$4g0@clarknet.clark.net> <3pmrs4$g5t@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: interbev2.mindspring.com In article <3pmrs4$g5t@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: >got a very nice Web server. It also runs NCSA httpd 1.4 in pre-fork >mode, supports virtual network interfaces right out of the box (no >need for VIF patches, or limiting yourself to just two IP addresses) >and the commercial Netsite BSD server runs on FreeBSD. Note that >Linux supports none of the above. ;-) There are patches to heepd 1.4 for the first (I haven't tested them), and I have patches to Linux for the second. I really doubt most Linux/FreeBSD users will pay $2000-$5000 for web server software. :-) I'm not saying Linux will do as well (or for that matter, any worse) as FreeBSD, but them's the facts. -- Robert