> [email protected] wrote: >> In a web environment you should be using Linux, hands down. I'll amplify >> this assertion a little bit as well, you should make sure your web >> service >> environment is in a virtual machine on Linux. > > What's wrong with *BSD? As a matter of fact, for security I'd suggest > using OpenBSD first and go with a Linux distribution when there is a > specific need not addressed by the BSDs. > >> The shear number of tools available on Linux is just simply amazing. >> Screen, ssh, PAM, qemu, libvirt, virt-manager, X, and yes, I said it, >> The >> X Window Manager. > > Screen: OS X ships with it. > SSH: OS X ships with it. > PAM: OS X ships with it.
I don't think I said Mac didn't come with these, it may have sounded implied. That was a "why linux" not a why not mac. > QEMU: OS X doesn't ship with it but it's installable via MacPorts. Not really supported by the qemu guys. How's the version updates? > libvirt: Just like QEMU. > virt-manager: Not in MacPorts but it may be compiled separately. ditto. > X11: OS X used to ship with XQuartz but Apple separated it from the OS X is important. > distribution to ease development and updates. > Sparse files: OS X's VFS layer supports sparse files. This must be new because we've never see it work. Give me a link to a howto because I don't believe it. > Oh, and by the way? Windows can do all of these, too, courtesy of Cygwin > and MinGW. Yes, if MinGW is considered "supported" then I think we do not have enough common ground to discuss. > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
