*BSD News Article 55130


Return to BSD News archive

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
~