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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news.gun.de!knobel.gun.de!not-for-mail From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux as server Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 26 Sep 1995 21:45:41 GMT Organization: home, D-41469 Neuss Lines: 33 Message-ID: <449sa5$di@knobel.gun.de> References: <43ca72$2sq@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6434 comp.os.linux.misc:61487 Carsten Tschach (tschach@zedat.fu-berlin.de) wrote: : I need to configure a Internet-Server based on a Intel-Machine. : : 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, but Linux has : a better support for PCI and for me it has a better directory and : password-structure - more common to other operation-systems. : : Anybody of you have experiences with both systems and can help me? I think FreeBSD is the better server. About 1 year ago I played around with both, FreeBSD and Linux on my 486/33 machine with 16 MB Ram. My experience is, that the *BSD OS is more balanced. That means, that interactive jobs are not so much slowed down by heavy background (compile) jobs as it was the case on a linux machine. FreeBSD is pretty standard BSD. Don't worry about that, it's a feature ;-) I'd suggest to run a FreeBSD based machine as a server. If you have Sun's or other Unix workstations in the network then you have the additional advantage, that you can use remote dump to backup the filesystems over network. -- $$ apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd @home : andreas@knobel.gun.de $$ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu @work : andreas@sunny.wup.de $$ /pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz knobel: >>> powered by FreeBSD <<<