Umer Abdul Ahad wrote:
Hello,
Is there anyone who could quickly provide me comparison between FreeBSD and SuSE Linux ?? Specially, when I am running my firewall under SuSE.
Regards Umer
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Here goes!
FreeBSD vs (SuSE) Linux.............
The load-handling ability of FreeBSD is legendary. cdrom.com (at that
time the busiest download site in the world), used FreeBSD on a Pentium
200, and could handle around 6000 simultaneous logins. This is one area
that Linux simply hasn't had the 30-odd years of development time to
compete in. Security-wise, FreeBSD *may* have a slight edge out of the
box, but then security is what the administrater makes it, not the OS.
If security is your main requirement, then you can't go past OpenBSD.
Virtually any application that runs on Linux will run on *BSD, but some
need a little tweaking. (The file systems aren't quite the same.)
FreeBSD was designed as a server OS, so things like sound, games, etc
weren't in the minds of the developers. These can be overcome, but are
harder to achieve than with Linux.
It really depends on the use you have in mind for the box. If it will be
a super high-traffic web site, then I would personally look at *BSD. For
the more normal applications like mail-server, firewall-gateway, etc
where you are not expecting huge amounts of traffic, Linux will do a
fine job.
I ran FreeBSD for a year or so, and still have a "Chuckie" sitting on
the desk (along with "Tux", of course!).
HTH
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