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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!wave.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!gatech2!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!news.Stanford.EDU!jessica.Stanford.EDU!fangchin From: fangchin@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Re: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Date: 17 Nov 1995 17:29:02 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 47 Message-ID: <48igou$jig@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <47ojep$rr1@dns.crocker.com> <48dmg9$lc1@galaxy.ucr.edu> <30AB8366.1135@whitetiger.engr.sgi.com> <48gser$qpa@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jessica.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:19852 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8917 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:6507 Joe Sloan (js@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote: : >Oh yes, that point and click installation, settup, and stats : >was ever so difficult. Wish i could have got down and dirty with : >command line programs but unfortunately i didn't need to. Nor have i : >in the last 6 months of near flawless operation. That's just illusion many times. Just like the MS Windoz point and click often get into the way of doing real things. Many people who are more familiar with MSDOZ and MSWindoz tend to believe anything from bGATEs and companies are heaven sent. Not! Last time I checked, the full docset, (not WNT for dummies unless you want to stay in the dummy state) i.e. the tech reference set, is thicker than SunOS 4.1.3's. A good SunOS sysadmin needs to know quite a lot in the entire SunOS manual set, so is a Wnt sysadmin. So, where is the gain with all that point and click? Performance wise, last time (a month ago?) I checked even MS itself still used UNIX boxes for Internet gateways. MS WINT? I think not. : I have no complaints about apache - It takes all of 20 minutes : to go from source code to running www server... : Unfortunately, to run website for nt, I'd have to run nt. : Yuck. It ain't gonna happen. As one of the beta tester for the just released NCSA 1.5, I can second the above (it's very similar to Apache but differs in some ways). It never took me more than 20 minutes to get the seven betas up and running. Checking out bugs was another story. But hey, that's where the fun is and you got the source right? (show me the source of website, I often puzzled why some people play with pre-released software for MS DOZ or MS WINDOZ call themselves beta testers. If they don't have src, are not actively participating in fixing the software's bugs, then they are just end users, period). Getting high quality freeware for NT stuff is also much more difficult and if you think you can buy everything for your software needs without doing some programming youself, Good luck! Regards, Chin Fang fangchin@jessica.stanford.edu