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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16252 comp.unix.bsd:15984 comp.sys.sun.misc:17243 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8049 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!academ!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) Newsgroups: houston.internet.providers,houston.general,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft) Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Date: 26 Jan 1995 08:22:14 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 50 Message-ID: <3g8b6m$plu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <D2ys07.EKB@bonkers.taronga.com> <3g65h7$7ec@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3g697f$gs0@keys.csi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <3g697f$gs0@keys.csi.net>, Michael B. Bundy <mbundy@keys.csi.net> wrote: >In article <3g65h7$7ec@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, >jpsb <jpsb@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote: >>>The biggest difference between Neosoft's Pentiums and Sparcs >>>is that BSD is more reliable than Solaris. Not to mention being >>>much easier to port stuff to. . . . >>But *any* Unix Server should be able >>to out perform an intel with Free[Net]BSD. . . . >OK, Jim, compare: > >Site 1: > SPARCserver 1000, 2 processors @ 50.0 MHz (128MB Ram) > SunOS 5.3 Generic_101318-45 sun4d sparc > 1:19pm up 4:17, 43 users, load average: 2.08, 1.36, 1.28 . . . >Site 2: > Pentium 66 (96MB Ram) > BSD/386 1.1 0 i386 > 1:24pm up 21 days, 16:05, 43 users, load average: 1.07, 1.35, 1.36 > > >( All three of these systems are essentially doing the same work. Providing > users with and interactive shell with which to do email, gopher, ftp, etc) > >OK, so, what do you think? Tell me why I should spend $25,000 on a >Sparc 10 with 4 processors? Or $40,000 on a SS1000 when I would have >to run Solaris? . . . I'm interested in that answer, too. I'm much more at home with Sun hardware, but if I were starting over, it's not what I'd choose. I keep bumping into people who think BSD/386 is a toy, but I have yet to understand the reason. I'm open to suggestions on trimming follow-ups. -- Cameron Laird ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/claird/home.html claird@Neosoft.com +1 713 267 7966 claird@litwin.com +1 713 996 8546