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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!news1.digex.net!news.BLaCKSMITH.com!root From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs freeBSD Date: 11 Sep 1996 23:04:10 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <517gha$t6u@BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5142pc$94o@news.swan.ac.uk> Reply-To: leo@blacksmith.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparcplug.blacksmith.com Feisal Mohammed writes > In article <01bb9e7e$3d73fca0$f82274cf@a>, Ari wrote: > >Can anyone tell me which OS is better and why?More popular?Relative > >strengths/weaknesses? > > >Thanks > >Ari > There is no one better OS :) The best one is the one that works for you! > You have to define first what it is that you want to do, what > applications do you want to run, whether support for the particular OS > is available close at hand (books, friends etc)? > Make a list and check off one against the other based on your needs. > Ask questions like, does OS "xxx" support my hardware or run this > application? You get the idea? How about this checklist: I'm looking to run a File Server under a Pentium Pro 200 and a Pentium 133. It will serve files for Solaris (NFS), NT (with NFS _and_ Samba) and NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (NFS) only (no other FreeBSD/Linux machines). They will have Cogent 100mb/s ethernet cards and cheap video. The SCSI card will probably be an Adaptec 2940 (unless you can make a reccommendation for a better PCI card). Basically, I want to know which OS (Linux or FreeBSD) will run NFS better. Better is defined as more reliably, faster, and more efficiently (less CPU overhead/time). The time it takes to configure/implement is pretty much irrelevant if once set up it doesn't need to be touched ever again. leo. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXTmail OK) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+