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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux as server
Date: 15 Sep 1995 21:21:16 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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In article <43ca72$2sq@fu-berlin.de>,
Carsten Tschach <tschach@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>I tried both operationsystem, Linux with Kernel 1.3.25 and FreeBSD 2.05
>Can someone help me, wich system will be the best to act as a www, ftp
>and mail-Server, there arn't many users on the machine.
>
>FreeBSD seems to have a better Ethernet-I/O-Performance

Agreed.

> but Linux has
>a better support for PCI

Huh?  What does Linux support that FreeBSD doesn't w/regards to PCI boards?

>and for me it has a better directory and 
>password-structure - more common to other operation-systems.

No offense intended, but this is the *first* time I've ever heard this
arguement applied to Linux.  It may be different in your release, but
most of the Linux releases have a directory structure that is *very*
non-standard w/regards to any other OS.  FreeBSD has the standard 'BSD'
structure with additions made during the Net/2 release to cleanup
inconsistancies (sp?).  And, AFAIK the FSSTNG is supposed to be making all
of the OS's conform to a better standard sometime soon.


Nate
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