> Hi,
> did you read the article The Best OS for Web serving published on BYTE #3
> (March 1998)?
> I was very disappointed about it!
> I don't think that what the author did is a serious comparison and more than
> this, the article was full of mistake!
> First of all the platform examined were very different in terms of memory,
> number of CPU and architecture.
> Then, there was no real test considering number of hits or concurrent users
> supported by each machine.
> Regarding Linux I was surprised about how many error you were able to put in
> such few lines....
>
> as you all know:
>
> - Linux is NOT shareware: it is FREEWARE
> - Linux supports SMP since ages!
> - Linux runs on 64-bit platform very well!
> - As Digital Unix, Linux fully supports (and they are FREE!):Radius
> autentication server, IMAP server, IRC server, LDAP server and more...
> - Netscape FastTrack server is NOT the only option: there is also Apache that
> (more than being the most apreciated web server on the Internet) together
> with
> mod_perl or PHP allows to develop amazing web application with full access to
> the most famous RDBMS. (SSL is easy also with Apache: Stronghold or
> Apache_ssl)
> - OpenLinux is NOT the only commercial Linux solution: there is also RedHat and
> Suse which are really great product
> - PAM is available also on Linux!
>
> Many mistake were also present is the Solaris part... not to mention that
> the author forgot to say that every College student can easly crash a web
> server running on an NT box (even if it has SP4).
>
> I'm really wondering if who wrote the article has a true knowledge of Unix.
>
> I think that we (Linux users) should make them hear our voice writing
> hundreds of complaining e-mails ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...
>
> regards,
>
> Marco
No, I don't think so. Flooding writers/reviewers with hundreds of email
messages is something that Macintosh users do - not respectable Linux
users.
Regards,
Matthew
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