Compile Kernel Question

Lonnie Cumberland lonnie at outstep.com
Mon Oct 31 18:14:15 PST 2005


Thanks again,

I look forward to great success with FreeBSD for my projects.

Cheers,
Lonnie


Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-10-31 19:57, Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com> wrote:
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>>For a particular project as small web hosting company called
>>"PeoplesQuest Web Hosting Services" we are going to be using a
>>control panel H-Sphere that needs FreeBSD 4.11 because of some
>>particular Java dependency so I have had that version loaded onto
>>the server so that we can migrate over from Linux.
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>That definitely makes sense.  If 4.11 is what you need and it works
>fine for your project, then it's absolutely fine to keep using that
>version.
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>>If all goes well, then in the future we will update to the latest
>>stable versions of FreeBSD but I am going to be carefully watching
>>how it performs in comparison to various Linux versions although I
>>am told that FreeBSD is very stable and performs extremely well, and
>>better in many cases that Linux, under heavy loads.
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>To be realistic, FreeBSD doesn't *always* axceed the performance of a
>Linux system.  You can certainly find particular workloads for which
>Linux outperforms FreeBSD.  The reverse is also true, of course ;-)
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>Speaking for myself, after almost 7 years of working with FreeBSD,
>it's not just the "raw performance" that keeps me away from Linux
>if I can help it.  Other factors count too.
>
>Not to turn this into a huge advocacy thread, let me just say that
>the reasons why someone might prefer FreeBSD over Linux have been
>discussed about a billion times on this and other mailing lists
>of FreeBSD.  You will most certainly find pointers very easily by
>Googling around the *.freebsd.* hierarchy of discussion groups[1]
>and searching the mailing list archives[2]:
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>[1] http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists
>[2] http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3A*.freebsd.*
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>Welcome to the FreeBSD side of the world :)
>
>- Giorgos
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