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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!chinook.halcyon.com!dorian From: dorian@chinook.halcyon.com (Aaron Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: 19 May 1996 00:55:24 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4nlrhs$lqr@news1.halcyon.com> References: <318FA7CB.8D8@hkstar.com> <4n2btc$1vs@rabbit.augusta.de> <DrI7pE.pF@iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chinook.halcyon.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : : > Can you tell me, : : > FreeBSD is better? : : > or Linux is better? : : > : : > I need UNIX Operating System in my PC486. : : if your friends use Linux, use it too. If they use FreeBSD, take FreeBSD. : : If you donīt know, try FreeBSD! I think, Linux is a toy ... : Nice explaination. I use Linux, but I'm considering trying FreeBSD, however, : comments like your's do NOT make me want to try it. How about giving the : guy some info as to why you feel FreeBSD is NOT a toy and Linux is? Why : not give some reasons as to why maybe FreeBSD would be better suited for : him than FreeBSD. What are the advantages of one over the other? Rather : than let your personal bias come into play, be a little more constructive : and help the guy out. I think he is right, in that Linux is a toy, but let me explain my reasons for saying this. I run a webserver that gets hit about 200,000 times a day, with alot of CGI scripting going on, and a shell account usually running. I was running Linux 1.3.x (because I had to in order to get my SCSI card & HD to work properly). The system is a Pentium 133, Adaptec 2940 Controller w/ a Quantam Maverick 540mg HD, and 64 megs of RAM. It crashed pretty consistently about 4 or 5 times a week, usually in peek times. Now this may be my inability to properly set up the box, I'm not ruling that out, but when I switched over to FreeBSD 2.1, All my netowkring nightmares went away and the system turned into a perfectly stable well running machine, not to mention it was alsmo twice as fast responding. (BTW, I was running Apache on both machines) I don't feel, however, than Linux is worthless or useless. I just prefer FreeBSD as a network server. Linux is by far (I consider) a better desktop and devolpment system. I've always had an easier time working with Linux when trying to connect to DOS based machines, and the 1.3 kernels are absolutley full of really exciting options. I think that the devolpment of linux is aiming towards compatibilty, ease of use, and a wide range of options. I think FreeBSD is more aimed towards stabilty of code, even if that means less options and features, and network performance. Now the author of the previous message may have meant that Linux is a toy in a negative way, sounds like it at any rate, but I think there is a grain of truth in what he's saying. I don't think this should discount Linux, however. Just my opinion, Aaron Mitchell dorian@halcyon.com