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From: bisbey@loretta.la.ca.us (Richard Bisbey II)
Subject: Re: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server?
Message-ID: <1995Nov8.200134.21191@loretta.la.ca.us>
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:01:34 GMT
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Peter Seibel (seibel@mojones.com) wrote:
: true? The reason, as I understand it was that the Free BSD networking code was
: based on the old, tried and true BSD code whereas the Linux code was written
: from scratch. Experiences?
youth.net: {33} uname -a
FreeBSD youth.net 2.0.950412-SNAP FreeBSD 2.0.950412-SNAP #0: Thu Apr 13 14:11:34 1995 jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
youth.net: {34} uptime
12:01AM up 87 days, 9:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01
We run the old CERN 3.0 HTTPD with multiple IP addresses. I don't want to
waste the time going over to our ISP to install a UPS and reboot. I'm not
even sure I remember what the machine looks like... ;-)
rb