[wplug] A little BSD/Linux history question

[Poyner, Brandon]

I view it more of a 'keeping my sanity' and trust issue.  A server install of the BSDs comes with minimal cruft, the 4.x releases can be installed on as little as 250MB of disk space (100MB if you want to push it).  It's much harder to pare down many Linux distributions and keep the same level of functionality.  Along the lines of easy upgrades, each release is supported for much longer than say, Fedora, and when support is dropped there is a clear upgrade path.  This is also possible with some Linux distributions but I don't recall any being as easy (remember: sanity) or cheap.  Sure, you can buy RHEL and do a minimal install with a 3-5 year life cycle but it won't be free, or if you go with a RHEL clone can you really trust they'll still be around in 3-5 years?  Despite the *BSD is dead cry I'm pretty sure FreeBSD will still be around.  I really wouldn't know which performs better or is more stable, I've had good luck with both FreeBSD and Linux with uptimes well over a year.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Tom Rhodes [mailto:trhodes at freebsd.org] 
	Sent: Mon 2/21/2005 6:00 PM 
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	Subject: Re: [wplug] A little BSD/Linux history question
	
	

	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.
	
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	Tom Rhodes
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