[mohaa] curious behavior

[JNagle at franuniv.edu]

Excellent explanation...thanks! One thing to point out to you though when
you said:

>he ports collection is also a very welcome feature.  Online
>updating (with cvsup) is another selling point - keeping up with current
>changes to the Kernel and OS utilities always seems to be a challenge with
>Linux, but BSD seems to have this well in hand

Red Hat nows offers a service called Up2Date and it AUTOMTICALLY checks
daily to make sure you have the latest and greatest software and security
patches...its free for one system after that its a small fee per
machine...not bad.....

Zaphod
Leader of MOSS



                                                                                           
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Depends on the app.  There are positives and negatives for most of the
operating systems you can find.

Solaris is typically slower than Linux or BSD on PC's, because it's
designed
for SPARC in general, but also because it's a monolithic kernel and has a
great deal of services built into it.

Linux has a lot of support, and is a relatively small footprint for the
kernel (in comparison to comercial unix).  The cost for linux is a strong
selling point :-p  Also most games these days seem to want to support
linux,
which is a big bonus.

FreeBSD (and other BSD systems) has a microkernel based architecture and is
even smaller than linux in terms of size - making it even faster.  It used
to have a more streamlined TCP/IP stack as well, but I think this has been
rectified in the later linux kernels.  File access is typically a little
faster with BSD as well, although the statistics I saw on that were also
old.

I recently started using BSD, and I've been pleased with how
straightforward
it is to install and configure. (For someone familiar with various unix
flavors)  The ports collection is also a very welcome feature.  Online
updating (with cvsup) is another selling point - keeping up with current
changes to the Kernel and OS utilities always seems to be a challenge with
Linux, but BSD seems to have this well in hand.

oops.  I didn't mean to write a book.  Hope that helps :-)

     -- Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: JNagle at franuniv.edu [mailto:JNagle at franuniv.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 7:58 AM
To: mohaa at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [mohaa] curious behavior



I know they are close but is Unix a lot better than Linux for a serveR?
What about Linux vs BSD? Not trying to start a flame war but just curious
if one is better than the next for running game servers ONLY....

Zaphod
Leader of MOSS