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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!panix!news.gw.com!news.deshaw.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!208.196.160.6!jungle.escortnet.com!usenet From: Can Baysal <baysalc@escortnet.com> 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: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:49:28 +0200 Organization: Escortnet Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32E74238.167EB0E7@escortnet.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c341j$3dp@cynic.portal.ca> <E4F8q0.2zv@bigbird.telly.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pamukkale.escortnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; BSD/OS 2.0 i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:153925 comp.os.linux.networking:65979 comp.os.linux.setup:93639 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5708 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1998 Evan Leibovitch wrote: > Networking != NFS. This is just correct. As a manager of both OS's (in school we are using Linux to teach UNIX to kids, and in the company that I'm working with we are using BSDI), I think I can compare them. On the Linux side, you have the speed, not just computing speed, but also speed of change, you can find every kind of new, strange, and just interesting software. I do not mean it is hard to find software fo BSDI (God forbid), but possibilities with Linux somehow richer. On the BSDI side, you have reliabilty. You can configure the system and leave it to do work; mail server, web server, tacacs server, you name it, and it does the job. Linux is also reliable, and as my personel work station I'm using it, but I do not put my (especially my boss') money on it. Regards; Can Baysal; PS: About NFS performance; once I run five Linux boxes interconnected with NSF (one was holding system binaries, one X11 libs etc.). Boxes were i386+387 SX 16 with 9 Megs of RAM. They usually could keep together for two weeks (20 days top), then problems. But I had not any speed and runtime problems, at least I can say Linux's nfs (server side) is better than Ultrix 4.3 for VAX (but not Ultrix 4.4 for MIPS). >