On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Robert Lyons wrote:
OK, I'm not looking for a flame I just need some information. A friend of mine that is an ISP is swithching from Redhat to another distro. of linux. I of course recomended suse for his next release. He was also looking into using frebsd. Since I have never used frebsd, I would like to get a lot if input on how it compare to suse. Is it better or worse, more or less stable, etc. Hard to configure or worth the configuration?
I have used FreeBSD as both desktop and server. I would not advise anyone to use it if they have UDMA66 drives and SMP. I use SuSE6.3 on my workstation and FreeBSD as a server. That being said I would not use Linux as a server if FBSD would do the job. I would go with 3.4 release not 4.0. Too many problems with 4.0 right now. Support for new sound cards is lacking- but who needs a sound card in a server? Support is available on their mailing lists and is very good if you RTFM first and "abide by their rules". See www.lemis.com for an explaination . He wrote the book, BTW. My ISP changed from Linux to FBSD for speed and load capability. From my experience and their testing it is better on both accounts. Feel free to contact me if I can answer any other questions. -- Bob F EMail FBob@wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/