I have come across numerous reports/tests comparing the various OS's in
terms of raw speed and scalability. There are many conclusions but some
things seem to stick out:
1.) Linux is very well supported and sometimes easier to maintain than the
BSD's (RedHat & RPM's etc.)
2.) Linux and FreeBSD are FREE!
3.) The BSD's (Free, Net, Open, BSDI) have the some of the best networking
stacks and scale very well under heavy loads.
4.) Solaris scales very well under heavy loads and is rock solid but this
comes at a great expense (hardware and OS).
5.) Linux is fast under light to medium-heavy loads but tends to slow down
when saturated where as the BSD's and Solaris just keep on chugging.
6.) NT and 2000 are easy to deploy BUT are never as stable as any *NIX, cost
money, and you are fored to do everything the MS "closed-source" way.
7.) NT/2000 uptimes will never compare to any *NIX OS.
Everything is relative and is always changing with development.... you could
spend many $10,000.00's on Sun/Solaris or you can run Linux or BSD and buy
lots of inexpensive Intel/AMD/Alpha hardware.
More hardware always wins as long as you have a reasonable OS.
That's my two cents worth.
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Scott A. Gerhardt P.Geo.
Gerhardt Information Technologies
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> Before Microsoft bought it, Hotmail had a FreeBSD/Apache frontend and a
> Sun/Solaris backend. Supposedly, corporate wanted MS to move
> Hotmail to NT,
> but supposedly it failed so miserably at serving up 10 million users that
> they had to nix those plans. I think Hotmail is running FreeBSD/Apache for
> the most part, but 5-10% of the servers are Win2K...
> As for Linux, from what I've heard (haven't tested this out
> myself or
> anything), FreeBSD and Sun/Solaris are quite a bit more efficient for web
> servers. Linux just can't take the number of hits that the other two can.
> Linux is okay for development, but personally I'd rather run the
> same system
> on my development machines as I do for my live machines...
>
> O- ~ARK
> CFO, Hmedicine.com, Inc.
> I hope it feels so good to be right. There's nothing more
> exhilarating than
> pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?... ~Randal
> from "Clerks"
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jeremy brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:22 AM
> > To: CC Zona
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Ethics question...
> >
> > > > > Why would Microsoft be using Solaris, or Linux even?
> > (hint, the same
> > > > > reason -- their stuff works less good).
> >
> > Www.microsoft.com used to be served off of Solaris (where else could
> > you run a high performance installation of Oracle? ;). Hotmail was
> > (is) FreeBSD. Anyone would be stupid to not be using linux in their
> > interprise somewhere.
>
>
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