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From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 22 Jul 1995 10:17:19 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3ugeup$44k@news.unicomp.net> <3uk3b5$35a@legend.txdirect.net> <3uofeg$6jg@hilbert.dnai.com>
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:In article <3uofeg$6jg@hilbert.dnai.com>, Karl Wiebe <karl> wrote:
:>Rob Snow <rsnow@oasis.txdirect.net> wrote:
:>>If you point your web browser at http://www.freebsd.org and look under uses(?)
:>>you'll see that there is at least 1 fairly large ISP (several hundred users)
:>>running FreeBSD. I believe that there is a link to them, so you can see
:>
:>I believe BEST.COM uses FreeBSD for some of their servers, and they have around
:>4000 users.
:>
:>--
:> == Karl Wiebe == karl@dnai.com ==
:>"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud
:>"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud
:>"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud
:>
Yes, we do, and it's been hell :-( ... but linux would not fix the
problems we have faced getting FreeBSD stable. Having 130+ users
online at once tends to bring out the bugs in an OS. And, frankly,
linux just doesn't have the network or disk performance.
*BUT*, while I do not advocate linux as a backbone machine for an ISP,
as a home machine Linux and FreeBSD are about on par, with linux
possibly even edging it out.
I have one of each: A FreeBSD box and a Linux box.
-Matt