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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Differences between BSDI, FreeBSD and NetBSD?
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Date: 4 Jan 1997 22:54:49 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) wrote:
: Why do you say this? I'll admit that writes are slow, but that's
: true of most systems not specialised to be NFS servers. In my
: testing between a Sparc IPX (486-class) and a DEC Multia (low-end
: pentium class) running NetBSD, I could achieve a reasonable fraction
: of wire speed, 920 K/s, on reads. Writes were about 300-400 K/sec,
: and were better when the faster Multia was the server.
Well, there is still the issue of lockd/statd.
On the other hand, I have a 486DX2/66 here running NetBSD 0.9a that
acts as my NFS server. It gets mounted by systems running NetBSD 1.2,
SunOS 4.1.1 (3/80), SunOS 4.1.3, and SunOS 4.1.4. It works exceedingly
well, but yes, I know I need to upgrade 0.9a to 1.2.
: As for NetBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. BSDI, I run an ISP on NetBSD, but I
: wouldn't feel at all uncomfortable running it on FreeBSD or BSDI,
: either. Given that all three are undergoing continuous development,
: I don't see any strong technical reason to choose one over another.
My future goals include not running Intel machines here...
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Rick Kelly rmk@seahag.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
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