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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux as server Date: 15 Sep 1995 21:21:16 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 34 Message-ID: <43cqoc$hc7@helena.MT.net> References: <43ca72$2sq@fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5961 comp.os.linux.misc:59873 In article <43ca72$2sq@fu-berlin.de>, Carsten Tschach <tschach@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >I tried both operationsystem, Linux with Kernel 1.3.25 and FreeBSD 2.05 >Can someone help me, wich system will be the best to act as a www, ftp >and mail-Server, there arn't many users on the machine. > >FreeBSD seems to have a better Ethernet-I/O-Performance Agreed. > but Linux has >a better support for PCI Huh? What does Linux support that FreeBSD doesn't w/regards to PCI boards? >and for me it has a better directory and >password-structure - more common to other operation-systems. No offense intended, but this is the *first* time I've ever heard this arguement applied to Linux. It may be different in your release, but most of the Linux releases have a directory structure that is *very* non-standard w/regards to any other OS. FreeBSD has the standard 'BSD' structure with additions made during the Net/2 release to cleanup inconsistancies (sp?). And, AFAIK the FSSTNG is supposed to be making all of the OS's conform to a better standard sometime soon. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.