On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 09:43:36PM +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Siju George writes: > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> FYI, there are several things Linux kernel does better, esp. its network > >> stack, and there are some things FreeBSD does better. If you've weird > >> fantasies about your network setup (including multi-path routing), in that > >> case GNU/Linux is the one of the best way to realize that. > >> > > > I guess by multi-path routing you mean > > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Multipath > > Yes, but I never got around to try OpenBSD's multipath routing, I tried > FreeBSD's recently committed ECMP support[1], but it never worked as expected > for me. I'd two DSLs at work from same ISP who provides PPPoE connection with > same remote endpoint set in all connections[2]. FreeBSD didn't work for me as > expected, and I wasn't familiar with OpenBSD that time. > > > Could you please mention one weird fantsy that Linux does better? >
OpenAFS client doesn't work on FreeBSD. This is from my personal experience. Though people in the OpenAFS community are eager to get a stable working client on FreeBSD. At work I heavily rely on AFS for everything and I certainly can't use FreeBSD for this, all I would get is panics. > Policy based routing combined with multiple routing tables containing > multipath routes. > > In OpenBSD, you can achieve this using pf's 'route-to', but that's firewall > and not routing table. In FreeBSD, this has been possible recently with FIB > support it got, but to use it, you've to use ipfw(8), and not pf(8) :( . > > And, there was not any FreeBSD release since 5.4-BETA3 (my zeroth release) > which never panic'd for me, and whereas not every GNU/Linux kernel update > panic'd for me. > Maybe you should switch back to 5.4-BETA3 :P Well most of the panics are due to SMPing the kernel. Deadlocks and stuff are hard to detect. Maybe we should write a new event based kernel in javascript :P > Anyways, BSDs and GNU/Linux both have there pros/cons and both are under > development. And IMHO, badmouthing them without proper citations is same as > bullshitting. > > >>> If you guys are planning to java > >>>> development and stuff, I would say BSDs are a bad choice. > >> > >>> kindly elicit on this. > >> > >> Because no JVM vendor officially supports Java on BSDs, even though there > >> is > >> an agreement between FreeBSD Foundation and Sun Microsystems[2] regarding > >> Java > >> but it's not clear about the support. But most of things work just fine. > >> > > > Hear some thing similar > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120524299726052&w=2 > > Thanks for the link. I didn't know there are people running Java in production > on BSDs. It's nice. > > References: > [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2008-April/089956.html > [2] > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/3d3aa040e55ee121/ > > Thanks > -- > Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 > freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ > > Avoid Success At All Costs !! > _______________________________________________ > bsd-india mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
