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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!dns.crocker.com!wizard.pn.com!news.zeitgeist.net!lind.mojones.com!seibel From: Peter Seibel <seibel@mojones.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server? Date: 8 Nov 1995 00:46:26 GMT Organization: Mother Jones Interactive Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lind.mojones.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_68K X-XXMessage-ID: <ACC54081B5027687@lind.mojones.com> X-XXDate: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 00:57:37 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:19644 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8780 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:6393 Hello, I have to pick out a machine and OS to buy to replace our old Sun 4/260 which is our www server (and everything else, mail, ftp, gopher) and have narrowed it down to a well equipped Pentium running either Linux or Free BSD. I was leaning toward Linux but was told that the networking code in Free BSD is more robust and therefore better for running a www server than Linux. Is this still 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? -Peter ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Seibel Programmer Available seibel@mojones.com Writer for contract 510-482-9105 Web Technologist work ------------------------------------------------------------