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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD vs Solaris for x86 ?
Date: 23 Jul 1996 15:15:58 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4t02sr$btn@hkusuc.hku.hk>, Keye Lai <hrmslcw@hkucc.hku.hk> wrote:
>
>        I have tried most of the versions, (Debian, Slackware, Jurix, Redhat,  
>       Xdenu, mini-linux, FreeBSD, Solaris x86) but still not know the         
>perfomance, any ideas?

If you really have tried all those systems - not just tried them,
but investigated them fully - and can't see any big difference
in performance between them, then the simple answer is that the 
differences are too small to be important to you and you should 
choose some other criterion (price? availability of technical
support? previous experience? Whatever's important to you).

Choosing an operating system is as much a question of religion 
as of technology.  It would be very easy for me to jump up and 
down and shout "Use FreeBSD, it's brilliant, all the rest are 
total rubbish", but that's not how it works.  We are talking 
about three commercial-quality operating systems here, and it 
would be silly to pretend otherwise.

Just asking which one is "best" leads to a religious argument.  The
important question is which one is best for you, and you are better
qualified than any of us to answer that!

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/