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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.abo.fi!not-for-mail From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 9 Sep 1996 12:49:10 GMT Organization: Unorganized Usenet Postings UnInc. Lines: 21 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <5113o6$k8a@josie.abo.fi> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> <aak2.842255270@Isis.MsState.Edu> Reply-To: mandtbac@abo.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.abo.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950520BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26911 comp.unix.solaris:81933 comp.os.linux.misc:127978 Atif Ahmad Khan, in <aak2.842255270@Isis.MsState.Edu>: [...] >We are currently using all three operating systems on different machines. >We just cannot decide what we want to go with, for our main web server. >From the benchmarks on the net, Linux seems almost twice as fast as Solaris. >As for security, I am unaware of any significant advantages that Solaris >offers over Linux. you will likely be told about Trusted Solaris, which implements what used to be called POSIX.6 but has now been renumbered. that _is_ more secure than Linux, very much more i would dare say; but if you merely want to secure a web server, then why not put it outside a suitably fascistic firewall and make sure there's nothing too valuable on it? seems to me that that which a web server hands out to the 'net at large is public information anyway; so you merely need to ensure that breaking the server won't compromise anything else, no? -- "I miss the comfort in being sad" -- Nirvana