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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD: Differences? In-Reply-To: craigs@os.com's message of Mon, 29 Jan 96 13:54:20 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdrawjhx2v.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Lines: 34 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4drq9h$o2m@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4eijr5$mrt@venus.os.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:52:56 GMT Our friend, craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton), wrote: > In article <4drq9h$o2m@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, > ahupp@primenet.com (Adam Hupp) wrote: > There were eight major differences between the two that I considered when > choosing FreeBSD or Linux. > > 1) FreeBSD is secure, Linux is not. (Linux has way too many suid programs) How much of the security is intrinsic in the operating system? Has the syslog bug been patched on Linux yet? (for example) Another observation that might be worth making is that most of the common security packages are developed on a BSD 4.4 system it seems. > 3) FreeBSD has faster networking than Linux. > > 5) Linux makes a better web server. (Apache seemed "snappier" on Linux) What accounts for this? I would imagine that the web server would make the networking speed kinda important. What other factors are going on here that I am not thinking about? My reasons for choosing FreeBSD over Linux are that I am not very comfortable with the ways that Linux has been going. For example, some simple things are still broken (like flock as I recall). This is just _really_ important. And I really dislike all the of the distributions that I have seen (especially bash as /bin/sh. I think that this is just fundamentally broken). And I confess to having a preference for BSD type systems, so it seemed the way to go Thanks, just curious Soren