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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.229.87.25!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!wellspring.us.dg.com!mojo.europe.dg.com!mellifluous.europe.dg.com!colin From: colin@mellifluous.europe.dg.com (Colin Smith) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 27 Mar 1997 10:15:46 GMT Organization: Data General UK Lines: 68 Message-ID: <5hdhci$7nc@mojo.europe.dg.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mellifluous.europe.dg.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19457 comp.os.linux.misc:166578 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37821 In article <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com>, lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) writes: |> >=Many servers (large ones too) don't support compressing on the fly. |> >=And I'm not sure if war ftp 1.55 can tar on the fly. |> > |> >So the answer is NO, I guess... Poor choice of ftp-server, then, IMHO... |> |> Actually no. It is almost the *only* server used for warez. |> |> >Another common misconception :) Your computer did not get any slower |> >since the time you bought it... Unlike cars, computers don't get |> >worse with time (well, they may break)... You may "feel" it is slower, |> >because you've already experienced a faster one. |> |> Sort of. My computer has become slower because software has become |> less efficient and bigger therefore much more taxing on my system. |> |> > Those willing to give up functionality for ease of use |> > loose both and deserve neither. |> |> What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't? Serve 80 million hits per day? Directly address 32Gb of RAM? :) Scale man..... Scale. Install Linux on every computer in your company and not pay a penny (cent) in license fees? I'd say that these are fairly significant. Plus Linux can run on a 386 with 4Mb of Ram. (great for a firewall) or a workgroup webserver. Linux is faster too. Check out this months Web Developer magazine - The Platform Wars. Red Hat Linux blows NT away. Same hardware, Same Webserver. NT 4.0 Clients Connects/s Throughput Mb/s 8 18.69 1.01 16 31.92 1.88 32 29.97 1.68 48 29.23 1.65 64 22.53 1.12 Red Hat 4.0 Clients Connects/s Throughput Mb/s 8 18.01 1.32 16 31.93 1.99 32 31.58 1.93 48 31.27 1.83 64 29.82 1.41 NT tops out a whole 16 clients & then starts losing it. While Linux is still going strong at 64 clients. (I can just see an Energizer bunny going past with Linux tatooed all over it) :-) The _ONLY_ time that NT does better is with the _LOWEST_ number of clients (8) _and_ then _only_ on the connections per second. Oh Yeah. I forgot to mention. Red hat Linux is free to download or you could buy the CD for $3 from www.cheapbytes.com. -- Archeus Free FRPG - http://www.geocities.com/Area51/3002/ Colin Smith (colin@mellifluous.europe.dg.com) My opinions are completely my own, bought and paid for.