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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chatta.samart.co.th!news From: Ruediger Koch <rkoch@samart.co.th> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:43:29 +0700 Organization: Samart Lines: 50 Message-ID: <32E66DE1.7E36AB48@samart.co.th> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c58n9$hcb@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: firewall.samart.co.th Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.18 i586) CC: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:65908 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5692 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1983 We're using both (Linux/SPARC, Linux/i386 and FreeBSD after making pretty bad experiences with Solaris. It really seems to me a matter of taste; prefering a System V ish or a *BSD system. Both are excellent, rock solid and cool (Can't say that from Solaris). For us, the decission which system to use on which box is mainly if we need a special feature (like masquerade and SMP = Linux) or good experiences (like FreeBSD as a mail server for 6000 users). This seems to confirm what you say, but we're also using Linux on a Sparc for exactly these 6000 users as a proxy server and web server. Handling 1000 simultaneous connections does not seem to be a problem. The same hardware under Solaris was at its limits and the systems crashed regularly. For the mailserver, we replaced a Sparcstation 20 with 64MB by a P133 with 32MB. The load went down from 1-2 to 0.05-0.3! Two of the fucking expensive Suns are catching dust now. For me, the question is not: Linux or FreeBSD, it is: which commercial system is better than Linux or *BSD And what I know for sure is: Never again Solaris! Best Regards und viele Gr"usse aus dem sonnigen Thailand R"udiger Koch J Wunsch wrote: > > Another thing a customer reported to me yesterday: he could only start > two rsh connection to a Linux server from a particular machine in his > net, at the third attempt, he got a connection refused (the SYN packet > was immediately responded to with a RST packet). All other machines > in the net could still rsh to it, just one. :-/ Are you sure that this is not a problem on the client side? It needs not, but: could this machine still rsh to other machines? > > Sure, all this is heavily a moving target. Today's bugs will be fixed > by tomorrow. But still, since people running `serious' jobs tend to > prefer not using the latest versions of a system, this explains their > mental problems with this kind of bugs. > > -- > J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer > joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j