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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!news From: Lars Hofhansl <lars_hofhansl@public.uni-hamburg.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 18:58:26 +0100 Organization: private site, Hamburg (Germany) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <311250C2.2781E494@public.uni-hamburg.de> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: montenegro.public.uni-hamburg.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) John Moore wrote: [...] > Now the problem. All the reading that I've done on the subject seems > to indicate that while Linux supports more varied types of hardware, > FreeBSD is a more stable product. > > Comments anyone ??? > On http://plastique.stanford.edu/ you'll find an extensive work comparing Linux(1.2.8), FreeBSD 2.05, and Solaris 2.4. (It's a ~300k postscript file). The jist is: - Linux has best FileSystem-Performance (because it's doing FS-Updates asychronously) - FreeBSD has fastest Network-Performance (Note : Linux got better Networking code since 1.2.8, and FreeBSD got the async option for FSs in 2.1) In General FreeBSD seems to be more stable. I used RedHat-Linux 2.0 and FreeBSD 2.1. They're both pretty good. I prefer FreeBSD, but your mileage may vary ! Read the study mentioned above and decide yourself ! -- Lars