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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!dostoevsky.ucr.edu!js From: js@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Re: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server? Date: 15 Nov 1995 21:36:09 GMT Organization: University Of California Lines: 28 Message-ID: <48dmg9$lc1@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <47ojep$rr1@dns.crocker.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:20158 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9079 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:6605 In article <47ojep$rr1@dns.crocker.com>, Nathan J. Kurz <nate@tripod.com> wrote: >Peter Seibel <seibel@mojones.com> wrote: >>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? > >I've been wondering the same thing. We are currently running Apache under >SunOS on a Sparc 10/51, and it's been flaking out on us in strange ways. None >of us really know Suns well, so we are planning to switch to Linux (on a >Pentium) once the lease expires on the Sparc. The P133 we have runs a lot >closer to a Sparc 10 than I would have thought, and the price/performance is >_much_ higher. I've been running 2 www servers, 1 linux and 1 FreeBSD, both apache. Both seem very stable, and I think either one would be a good choice. OTOH, some lame thing like "website" for nt would be a real pain. -- Joe Sloan jjs@engr.ucr.edu | College of Engineering jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu | University of California ~