Thanks to everyone who made great comments on the list and also to me directly. The BSD boxes are being retired, they are well past their prime and are struggling to keep up, so the new boxes will be running Linux. It does come down to what you are comfortable with in the long run. They all are the same under the hood, Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, etc. The difference being what comes with them. Red Hat seems to be more of roll your own vs. Suse and Mandrake that do a wonderful job of giving you a system with all the bells and whistles!
So, again, thank you. I will let you know how it goes! -Scott At 05:29 PM 7/2/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > Scott, > > Consider this move carefully. FreeBSD is more than just reliable. > > Like Linux it is a Unix clone, but instead of being designed to mimic > > minux it grew from ATT Unix. (not better or worse just different roots) > > I recently decommissioned a FreeBSD Firewall / file server in an office > > we closed that had 622 days uptime. The last time it had been rebooted > > was due to an extended power outage (2 days) due to an exploding power > > transformer (Lightning strike) in the neighborhood. In fact the last > > time the box had been accesed was 6 months ago to open a port on the > > Firewall for VNC routing. I love my Linux desktop. Over the years it's > > served me well and it has all the bells and Whistles I could desire. > > But if you've got FreeBSD working and running well .... why change. A > > friend of mine runs a server serving websites for about 30 organizations > > and e-mail to over 200 users ..... one box, for years it was running > > 2.2.1 BSD and he finally upgraded it when the hardware decided to crap > > out. (Mobo developed a crack in one of the power couplings and .... > > died. Unless you held it down just right) Any of the software running > > on the BSD box should be convertible to Linux just by compiling on a > > Linux box. (sometimes you can just move the binaries and it works) So > > at least 95% of the software should be an easy transfer. Otherwise I > > would recommend only switching to Linux if: > > > > 1. Your really need something and there is no way FreeBSD can offer it. > > 2. You are adding a new server and really want to run Linux. > > 3. Hardware is dieing and you are building a replacement box and you > > really want to run Linux. > > > > For the boxes that run and run well. Leaving well enough alone is my > > advice, since you aren't loosing security, reliability or choice. > > > > James > > > > PS hope no one takes offense but to me Open Source and Reliability are > > more important than brand on servers. Just don't expect me to run > > anything but Mandrake on my workstation except under gunpoint.
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