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#! rnews 1796 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!news From: Todd Hoff <tmh@whitetiger.engr.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Re: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server? Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:31:02 -0800 Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <30AB8366.1135@whitetiger.engr.sgi.com> References: <47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <47ojep$rr1@dns.crocker.com> <48dmg9$lc1@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fddi-sgigate.sgi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1J (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:20347 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9195 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:6689 Joe Sloan wrote: > > >I've been wondering the same thing. We are currently running Apache under > >SunOS on a Sparc 10/51, and it's been flaking out on us in strange ways. None > >of us really know Suns well, so we are planning to switch to Linux (on a > >Pentium) once the lease expires on the Sparc. The P133 we have runs a lot > >closer to a Sparc 10 than I would have thought, and the price/performance is > >_much_ higher. > > I've been running 2 www servers, 1 linux and 1 FreeBSD, both apache. > > Both seem very stable, and I think either one would be a good choice. > > OTOH, some lame thing like "website" for nt would be a real pain. Oh yes, that point and click installation, settup, and stats was ever so difficult. Wish i could have got down and dirty with command line programs but unfortunately i didn't need to. Nor have i in the last 6 months of near flawless operation.