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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux Date: 30 Sep 1996 21:52:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <52pfff$d93@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3246f8e0.1466924@news.telepac.pt> <324924E5.49B6@usoft.nl> <324AC49E.1CD3@pressconnect.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Mischka Hughes <mischkah@pressconnect.com> wrote: > How about robustness - I need a server / OS combination that is totally > stable. It must never go down. I am prepared to pay the price of a > little slowness for robustness. Get an Auspex. ;-) > Now what do you recommend, FreeBSD or Linux or even Linux-FT. Since you're asking in the FreeBSD group: get FreeBSD. :) Some people claim it were more stable and in particular more robust under load than Linux. Since i cannot judge by own experience, i'll simply pass this on uncommented. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)