[wplug] A little BSD/Linux history question

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 21 18:00:36 EST 2005


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:32:19 -0500
Michael Smith <michael at smith-li.com> wrote:

> A previous post got me free-associating. Does anybody know why the BSDs 
> are such a popular choice for web servers? Any well-formed opinions as 
> to whether they're _still_ better than Linux or any other platform, if 
> they ever were?
> 

Personally, I think they are.  But the email address would give
that away.

My FreeBSD box with added security has never given me a problem
and I personally find the upgrade process so much easier.

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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