Now we get to watch the body part's fly across the room. :) You know there are 3 things in life which you never ever talk about in public; religion, politics and what OS is best.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Kather [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:24 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why? > > > We can not seem to come to an agreement on the best operating system to > run > > spam assassin. So we have decided to post this question to the mailing > list > > so we can have other opinions. I realize everyone will have a different > > opinion on the subject and some will have none at all, linux is linux > and > > unix is unix. So I would like to hear users experiences using different > > operating systems. Pros/Cons/Problems/Headaches/etc. The operating > systems > > I'm most interested in are Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSDs, > and > > OpenSolaris. > > Now why do you have to go start a flame war ;). I guess I'll add my 2 > cents. > > Let me start by saying they're all great choices (though I can't comment > on > OpenSolaris). I prefer Linux. > > It seems to me that more and more development is becoming Linux centric. > It > makes sense since it definitely seems to have a larger user base (though > I'm > sure SA is very much developed with BSD and Linux in mind). I know when I > moved from FreeBSD to Linux I definitely noticed a performance > improvement. > This has also been very well documented several times.. In most situations > Linux outperforms BSD (though often at the cost of stability). > > Here's one such test, though it is slightly old FreeBSD 5.1 and Linux > Kernel > 2.6.0-test7. > http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ > > It also seems that Linux gets a lot more interesting features, IMO. > Reiser4, > SELinux, LVM2 (does FreeBSD have that with online volume resizing and > snapshots?). > > I would say you should analyze your needs. What are you most comfortable > with? You'll be happy with Linux or FreeBSD, so it's more a matter of > personal preference. For a rule of thumb maybe you could say; If I want > to > be stability centric == FreeBSD, if I want to be feature and/or speed > centric > == Linux. (Knowing that both are faster then *Certain* other operating > systems) > > As for my choice in Linux: > > I personally like SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) for my servers. > Very > nice update features, solid stability and performance, decent package > selection, and YaST is quite nice if you don't like hand editing config > files. You don't need a gui to run it since it has full ncurses support > (RHEL's tool doesn't I believe). SLES 10 is due out this summer too with > some impressive bundling (XEN for one). > > Ubuntu seems a bit desktop focused for me as far as serving is concerned. > Debian stable is too old, but apt is amazing and as someone else mentioned > you can mix stable, unstable, and testing packages together so it's really > no > big deal. Can't really comment on Slackware having only used it a few > times, > though I think it could use some better package management from what I > remember. > > Gentoo is amazing. I would definitely say you should run Gentoo if you > want a > testing environment for bleeding edge features. It makes a fine server > too > if you have a few boxes and can use distcc to reduce the time to update > packages and distribute load so users don't notice. I have had a few > cases > where ebuilds have been broken. That's not fun. It's definitely not the > most stable for a server, but you can't beat it's package management, > customization (except for maybe LFS), and speed. > > Ryan > > -- > 'Twas midnight, and the UNIX hacks > Did gyre and gimble in their cave > All mimsy was the CS-VAX > And Cory raths outgrabe. > > "Beware the software rot, my son! > The faults that bite, the jobs that thrash! > Beware the broken pipe, and shun > The frumious system crash!"
