The case for FreeBSD
Andy Firman
andy at firman.us
Tue Feb 8 06:40:40 PST 2005
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote:
>
> > Both operating systems do certain tasks better than each other, and both
> > still have bugs.
>
> Well from dumb user perspective I dont really give a toss what Chritos has
> to say about FreeBSD or NetBSD and I really hope the developers don't
> waste any time or effort on a flame war over it.
>
> I have had such a miserable time with 5.3 that I have stopped testing with it.
>
> Geom (in its gstripe invocation) and vinum have both died on me repeatedly.
> The disk performance compared to 4.11 on the same hardware is atrocious.
>
> I have championed FreeBSD and got it adopted for various purposes
> at a number of major clients but I wouldn't dare recommend 5.3.
Your comments are disturbing. I run a few 4.10 servers and am getting ready
for a couple new ones and would like to go with 5.3 stable.
Then I ran across this article:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1518217
which doesn't really go into detail, so I don't really trust the article.
For a small web/email/database server on i386, using GEOM Mirror,
( http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ )
everything should be fine right???
I am moving from Linux to FreeBSD as much as possible,
but am very confused about whether or not to use 5.3 !
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