On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:10:39PM -0000, John Gold wrote:
>
> > I am in the process of setting up a web/database server and was
> > wondering if anyone had any comments regarding the operating system. I
> > was all set to use linux but have heard that freebsd is pretty good -
> > has anyone had any experience in this area?
>
> The BSDs have certain technical advantages, the one important one being
> that the filesystem is a little faster. However, these technical advantages
> are really only of interest to OS-bigots. In practice, both systems can be
> just as productive. Go with whichever you're most familiar with.
>
Another thing to be borne in mind if it is important to you is the
availability of certain commercial software on the platform - I work a lot
with Informix stuff and that is just not available for *BSD at the current
time - although they did poll the user community whether a port of the SDk
would be appreciated for BSD sometime last year.
On this (Linux) machine (my laptop) I have an Informix Database Server and
a 4GL compiler - this stuff doesnt run natively on BSD.
Of course if you are looking to work with open source software exclusively
then there it probably comes down to a matter of personal taste - I tend
to prefer Linux anyhow because it has more of the SysV stuff from where I
came in and a lot of people will prefer BSD because thats part of their
tradition - we have a lot of customer facing servers at work running BSD
for instance oh and Solaris BTW :)
/J\
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