[ale] free bsd vs. linux

[Christopher Bergeron]

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Robert, I've had a similar curiosity (to that of the original poster).  
Since you're dually experienced, what type of applications do you find 
*BSD more suited to than Linux?  The highest loads that my linux boxen 
(my most superior boxes, to date) experience are:
~    a) very high web loads [anually when we get slashdotted] - but the 
CPU load only hits about 20% at best (it's a dual AMD 1.8Ghz), as such, 
I'm quite certain that the bottleneck is our T1 'net connection.
~    b) high transactional/processing load on our corporate intranet 
(PHP+apache+mysql).

Could BSD offer us any enhancements in this environment?  As I've said, 
I've heard a lot about [F,O]BSD, but most of is only relevant in the 
security/router/ftp server/closed systems.  If it has some significant 
offerings, I'll persue it more fervently.

Also, let's not turn this into a flamewar.  I'm not baiting here, I'm 
just wondering if my companie(s) could benefit by using BSD in places 
that our exisiting linux environment lacks (which I haven't found any 
yet; but that's the point of this message).

Your thoughts / suggestions?

- -CB



Robert Heaven wrote:

|I work with FreeBSD all day at work and use Linux at home for my
|personal PC... I guess the best analogy I can think of is:
|
|When I see Linux I think of a luxury automobile with all the latest
|bells and whistles and a big powerful engine to drive it.
|
|When I see FreeBSD I think of a John Deer Tractor, not very fancy, not
|very fast. But it can pull one hell of a load and plow the fields all
|day, every day.
|
|On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 23:00, Stephen Turner wrote:
|    so the kernel of free bsd is worked on a little differently than linux,
|    how is free bsd with supporting grafix, sound, and other expansion 
cards?
|    how is it better? im a little curious about it, i was curious tho 
how it
|    compaired to linux, i mean for a while ive known about it but my
|    impression was it was a hard core unix replica that didnt support 
pretty
|    features, just mostly command line.. come to think of it i find myself
|    living in 4 terminals on x anyways... how does free bsd compare?
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