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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!news.imag.fr!Alain.Knaff From: Alain.Knaff@|no-spam|poboxes.com (Alain Knaff) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 5 Oct 1996 09:18:31 GMT Organization: IMAG, Grenoble, France Lines: 28 Message-ID: <slrn55c9t8.5gl.Alain.Knaff@hal.inrialpes.fr> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <324E80B3.21F4@www.play-hookey.com> <52p6tn$g9@anorak.coverform.lan> <3252155A.6258@www.play-hookey.com> <530juv$ab3@tracy.nacs.net> <32559200.53CA@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: Alain.Knaff@|no-spam|poboxes.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp3.imag.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-No-Archive: yes X-Comment: To reply, remove |no-spam| from the return address X-Spam-Trap: misc.test@news.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.0.0 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:133677 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28593 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44464 In <32559200.53CA@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: :You left out the other half of the obligatory thinking, here: cost. :Those $$$$ are also highly important. The concept of "doing the job" :also implies "at an appropriate cost," although that isn't always stated :explicitly. However, you have begun talking about a Yugo vs. any other :car as if the price tag were irrelevant. It isn't. : :Thus: I drive the car that best suits my needs at a cost I can afford. :The same holds true for my choices of computers, printers, etc., and :software. I hate to burst your bubble, but we're speaking about _free_ software here. Thus cost is a non-issue. And if cost were an issue, it would actually speak _against_ netscape: most "real" newsreaders are free for everybody, whereas you are legally only allowed to use netscape free of charge if you meet certain conditions (educational institution, or non-profit organisation, or evaluation, ...). Moreover, netscape demands more Ram, which also costs money. It seems that the more adequate tool actually costs less. -- Linux - Why use Windows, since there is a door? Alain