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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:34:04 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <E4F8q0.2zv@bigbird.telly.org>,
Evan Leibovitch <evan@bigbird.telly.org> wrote:
> What about throughput, FTP, http, and especially *stability* (which is
> what the original quote above referred to)?
My experiences with systems out on the net that I use, mostly people
running ISP-type systems as a hobby (!), are that the Linux boxes vary
widely in stability. Some are quite solid, and some fall over very
easily, drop connections, that sort of thing. The FreeBSD boxes aren't
perhaps that much better than the best of the Linux systems (when your
standard is 'it hasn't fallen over on me yet' you don't have a lot of
room to say which 100% is betteri), but none of them seem to be any worse
than the others.
Now this could be due to the FreeBSD folks being more anal about the
hardware they're buying, or it could be due to there being some "good"
Linux releases (kernels, distributions, what have you) and some "bad"
ones. I don't know. But at this point I would use Linux more on the
desktop (where the SVGA mode and the low end driver support is more
critical) and stick FreeBSD on the server (where you're going to pick
and choose the hardware for the O/S anyway).
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'