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From: evan@bigbird.telly.org (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Organization: Sound Software
Message-ID: <E4F8q0.2zv@bigbird.telly.org>
References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c341j$3dp@cynic.portal.ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:01:12 GMT
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In article <5c341j$3dp@cynic.portal.ca>,
	Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:

>In article <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
>Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
>>J.C. Archambeau (jca@bighorn.accessnv.com) wrote:

>>]It also seems the FreeBSD is more solid that
>>]Linux in the networking department.

>> I see this claim now and then. Can you post some specific data, comparing 
>> Linux and BSD networking ?

>I see this claim regularly to, and I recently tried to investigate
>it.  Unfortunately, I have found only one Linux user who is willing
>to give me any statistics on NFS performance,

Networking != NFS.

I don't care one bit about NFS performance. All the remote mounting I
need to do I can accomplish with Samba.

What about throughput, FTP, http, and especially *stability* (which is
what the original quote above referred to)?

-- 
  Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
 Supporting PC-based Unix since 1985 / Caldera & SCO authorized / www.telly.org
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