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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.inc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD vs Solaris for x86 ? Date: 23 Jul 1996 15:15:58 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4t2qbe$hek@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4t02sr$btn@hkusuc.hku.hk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4t02sr$btn@hkusuc.hku.hk>, Keye Lai <hrmslcw@hkucc.hku.hk> wrote: > > I have tried most of the versions, (Debian, Slackware, Jurix, Redhat, > Xdenu, mini-linux, FreeBSD, Solaris x86) but still not know the >perfomance, any ideas? If you really have tried all those systems - not just tried them, but investigated them fully - and can't see any big difference in performance between them, then the simple answer is that the differences are too small to be important to you and you should choose some other criterion (price? availability of technical support? previous experience? Whatever's important to you). Choosing an operating system is as much a question of religion as of technology. It would be very easy for me to jump up and down and shout "Use FreeBSD, it's brilliant, all the rest are total rubbish", but that's not how it works. We are talking about three commercial-quality operating systems here, and it would be silly to pretend otherwise. Just asking which one is "best" leads to a religious argument. The important question is which one is best for you, and you are better qualified than any of us to answer that! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/