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Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: |I am thinking of trying out the new ubuntu-server. So have some questions: | |>Dev WebServer/CVS : debian Stable 3.1 | | |Which packages does Debian stable have which Ubuntu doesnt? What makes Debian |stable ... stable? | Actually Unbutu has all packages and more which Debian Stable has (its got more than 17000 packages if one activates multi universe ) ...but I am on Debian on my dev server as packages tend more tested and lesser upgrades also I am to lazy too try any other option ubuntu server looks promising just 450 mb in size with all popular server applications ~ such as apache, mysql, postgresql, php, zope, openldap, bind, samba etc one CD with as usual 18 months cycle . ~ I just love ubuntu ...its makes me more lazy and happy ....who will now Fedora for anything ;-) |>Server : FreeBsd 5.4 (after removing RHES 3.1) |>Rock Solid as server , great ports collection | | |Which commonly used packages does Freebsd have in it ports collection that |Debian/Ubuntu doesnt? | |Also, can anyone point me to any references which have performance |measurements of Freebsd versus Linux? Till now I have only heard about |FreeBSD being better in performance than Linux. Anyone has any links to tests |which have proved to you that it is better? | as ports collection there are 11,000 ports in freebsd official repo . I have not done any kind of performance testing ..... One thing abt bsd ports is that its actually compiles ports from the source during installation .....maybe that increases the performance by bit .Apache is also very stable during heavy loads I went for freebsd bcos rackspace wont offer free Debian support and RH package installation is crappy ...even with yum (Debian is not a supported OS in Rackspace!! only RH and freebsd ). After freebsd installation I just fell in love with it | | |- Sandip | - -- "Innovation is not absolutely necessary, but then neither is survival." - -- Andrew Papageorge -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDcy9fVAO9KHA2KWcRAr4aAJ4ts8as+iRBavKV9BMo9TxLD3vT/wCfXQZ+ 7kYe4kLiyW0h3LNJ3Jf5phg= =l5Vk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- DISCLAIMER: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This e-mail contains confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error)please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail.
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