At 05:25 PM 10/21/2000, Sergey Babkin wrote:
>Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
> >
> > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to
> > > choose from to drive our website.
> >
> > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster.
>
>Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly
>documented, finding sources for them is MUCH easier in FreeBSD. Linux
>is a patchwork of independent packages, and tracking down what came
>from where and was patched by what is usually not easy. Also commercial
>distributions of Linux sometimes tend to "lose" parts of sources,
>so that you will not always be able to re-compile the stuff at all.
>There's been a short period when I worked on building a Linux
>distribution and that was a quite special experience.
What he's trying to say is that the linux kernel is an abortion. They keep
redesigning it and its continuously unstable. Many of the kernel "features"
are experimental and large chunks of it simply dont work. Then, IF you can
get everything you need working, virtually all of the ethernet drivers lock
up under load. There is no static buffer pool so the memory system will
fail under heavy network load. So-called "local" panics can disable the
network sub-system without a reboot making it unusable in unattended
environments....
Need I go on?
Dennis
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