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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@webspan.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:08:07 -0400 Organization: WebSpan Inc Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3243E8B7.167EB0E7@webspan.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> <51odq3$foh@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mutara.noc.webspan.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130481 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27643 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43872 Ollivier Robert wrote: > In article <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie>, > Nick Hilliard <nick@Ireland.EU.net> wrote: > > Sounds just like the sort of sycophantic Gates-is-god dross you'd expect > > from PC Computing (or indeed most other ZD publications). > It is funny that Yahoo!, now a division of ZD, choose FreeBSD for their > servers (at least in Europe and I believe in the US as well). Just to confirm, that I have heard that Yahoo! use FreeBSD for their US based servers too. And are apparently very happy with it. Gary