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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linxu & FreeBSD(differences?) Date: 1 Jan 1996 18:19:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4c98j5$9s4@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4c6q0e$gg@shellx.best.com> <4c6r59$5mh@shellx.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:79582 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11891 In article <4c6r59$5mh@shellx.best.com>, John Yin <johny@shellx.best.com> wrote: >After reading through the newsgroups, it seems my question is a little >vague. Okay, say I have 4 P-133 PC's running one of the OS's >in a LAN plus another PC running as a file server. The 4 PC's are >going to be used for development. Also, I would like to have another >machine running a web server. Both groups will probably tell you that their OS is an excellent choice for this and both will be essentially correct. I could jump up at the word "networking" like one of Pavolv's dogs and say "oh, FreeBSD without a doubt!" but I'm sure that Linux's networking abilities have more than evolved enough this year to make a fairly basic scenario like yours work out just fine with an all-Linux environment. So then it really comes down to support, and that's going to be your biggest factor in chosing between the two. If you know of a local Linux guy who'll be happy to help you just for the chance to play with a cluster of 4 P5-133s then I'd say you're set. Likewise, if you can find a FreeBSD (or any other *BSD, Ultrix or SunOS) guru who's willing to do the same, bingo! >Which OS would be better for this kind of a setup and arethe source >codes pretty much portable between them with minimal rewrite. At the application level, yeah, I've had very little trouble with porting between the two. Jordan