--On Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:40 AM -0400 List Monkey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is when they use their new found wealth to buy Solaris.
>
> Oh, give me a BREAK. What, do you work for Sun?
I would choose Solaris first for a high-volume web server. Suns have been
more reliable in my experience than any PC-based OS.
I've heard that qmail isn't happy on Solaris, but I figure that's a qmail
problem. :-)
FreeBSD is also a very respectable OS. I wouldn't have any problem with it,
but I just think of Solaris first. Linux I have mixed emotions about. It's
good, but it just doesn't feel solid to me. It feels like a bunch of stuff
that somebody jammed together. Perhaps the excellent Solaris and FreeBSD
documentation has me spoiled.
FreeBSD has a really "coherent" feel to it. It's hard to describe, but it
just feels like a system, rather than a hodge-podge of parts. Solaris also
has this feel to it.
I prefer Debian for Linux, and it really is quite good. But somehow it just
isn't what I'd choose first for a production box.
