Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: snip One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX dialect than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking.

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Alessandro Baggi
On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillipsanti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: snip One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX dialect than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as well). This means

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 January 2011 11:47, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillipsanti_spam...@yahoo.ca  wrote: snip One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX dialect than most Linux

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:47:15 +0100 Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: How is the hardware support on FreeBSD? Not too bad as long as you are not interested in securing reliable/functioning drivers for wireless N devices. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer:

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread FRLinux
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:56 AM, James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX dialect than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking.

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 1/14/2011 12:46 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I don't want make a flame post but I would ask an objective opinion, then not a camp opinion, about using FreeBSD or Debian Linux in a production environment for solution as such as cluster of some service, proxy, SAN, performance, smp

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 14 January 2011 14:19, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 1/14/2011 12:46 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I don't want make a flame post but I would ask an objective opinion, then not a camp opinion, about using FreeBSD or Debian Linux in a production environment snip

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I don't want make a flame post but I would ask an objective opinion, then not a camp opinion, about using FreeBSD or Debian Linux in a production environment for solution as such as cluster of some service, proxy, SAN, performance, smp

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 07:46:20PM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I don't want make a flame post but I would ask an objective opinion, then not a camp opinion, about using FreeBSD or Debian Linux in a production environment for solution as such as cluster of some service, proxy,

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread James Phillips
Message: 14 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:46:20 +0100 From: Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com Subject: FreeBSD Decision To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 4d3099fc.10...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi list, I don't want make a

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread prad
Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com writes: Hi list, I don't want make a flame post but I would ask an objective opinion, then not a camp opinion, about using FreeBSD or Debian Linux in a production environment for solution as such as cluster of some service, proxy, SAN, performance,