[BBLISA] Comparison of BSD vs Linux? (here goes the flame war!)

[Edward Ned Harvey]

Actually, I will second that notion - For whatever reason, the Linux NFS
server is just plain slow, no matter how you tweak it.  Solaris is much
better at NFS.

Also, I've heard from this list that Solaris ZFS is awesome, while I will
admit that Ext3 and UFS are somewhat feature lacking.  (Do the BSD's still
use UFS?  That was a few years ago when I used it.)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of Dean Anderson
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:50 PM
> To: Steven M Jones
> Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org; Scott Ehrlich
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Comparison of BSD vs Linux? (here goes the flame
> war!)
> 
> Good history!
> 
> I concur completely with these conclusions, except I'm not convinced
> about openbsd security---security is the goal---but its basically just
> SunOS 4.1.3 retrogrades. And I note that you _still_ can't get a good
> linux NFS server. Linux servers are fine for other things, web, mysql,
> afs, etc.
> 
> I've also been running Aurora Linux (fedora something...never quite in
> sync with the regular fedora releases) on sparcs.  Its faster than
> solaris, but I'm running opensolaris on my desktop at home. Still can't
> beat solaris on the desktop---linux is just going the wrong way.
> 
> 		--Dean
> 
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Steven M Jones wrote:
> >
> > I generally prefer FreeBSD (or Solaris) for server roles, for the
> sake
> > of stability and manageability. That includes using FreeBSD for
> > firewalls and web servers. However I'm really disappointed that I
> can't
> > have FreeBSD as the host OS for Xen... When I complain about that to
> > other FreeBSD users, the usual response I get is that jails are
> meeting
> > most peoples' needs.
> >
> > I have been using RedHat/Fedora for years now for desktop and laptop
> > applications. It's just been easier to do that and usually have
> > everything ready out of the box with all manner of add-ons (Acrobat,
> > Flash, etc) without a lot of fuss. Many years ago (2000) I used
> RedHat
> > for all production uses in a startup, and it met those needs
> adequately.
> >
> >
> > Wow, what a lot of hot air! Hope this was at least amusing or
> > entertaining for the list.
> >
> > --Steve.
> >
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