Re: OT: Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

[Uwe Ohse]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:03:44AM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote:

> I would choose Solaris first for a high-volume web server. Suns have been 
> more reliable in my experience than any PC-based OS.

Sun hardware, yes. Solaris, now.
Solaris is slow, buggy and eats more resources than i could believe.

 
> I've heard that qmail isn't happy on Solaris, but I figure that's a qmail 
> problem. :-)

can you imagine the pain a solaris admin has when he thinks of inetd?
every fork/exec cycles burns 8 or 9 times as much cpu power than
under reasonable operating systems.

 
> FreeBSD is also a very respectable OS. I wouldn't have any problem with it, 
> but I just think of Solaris first. 

A misjudgement.


> just feels like a system, rather than a hodge-podge of parts. Solaris also 
> has this feel to it.

How do you manage to ignore the /usr/ucb (and xpg4 and ...) compatibility
braindamage?

Regards, Uwe