Linux or BSD ??

Just curious as to what everyone has installed


Please include your distro/version.

Slackware Linux 9.1

I'd really like to try out some different flavors, though. Hrmm...BSD does sound fairly appetizing.

Opps I forgot to mention what I am using

Workstation: FreeBSD 5.2 ( laptop with apm !!!!!)
Firewall: FreeBSD 4.9
Producion Server: FreeBSD 4.8

I take it you like bsd?

Slackware 9.1 aswell.

never !

I started with Redhat awhile back, and never really got cozy, after that I
gave Mandrake a shot, and it seemed young at best.


A buddy at work mentioned FreeBSD , so I downloaded the ISO, and never really looked back. I see BSD's as Unices without
training wheels. You can install a BSD machine with one disc or even just 1 floppy disc ,which I thought was awesome !!



It was definitely worth that one shot !

coworkers & I dork around w/ BSD much as possible
during our free time (which isn't often - hehe!).

I've got various versions of RedHat running right now, mostly 7.3. It works well, so I've not really needed to change it, although I am looking to build up a new primary system to replace my Windows machine (then Windows will remain for just IRC, Photoshop, Games & watching movies on).

My new box will be running some flavour ofLinux, although I've not decided which distro yet.

Desktops(includes all my Laptops): FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC2
Servers: FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE
Bastion Hosts: Open BSD 3.4
Toaster: NetBSD

Of course, at work I am stuck with RH9, RH Enterprise, Suse, SLES... blah blah blah.

Cheers.

Desktop: Apple Mac OS X Darwin Kernel Version 6.8
Desktop: Sun Solaris 9
Laptop: Red Hat Linux 9 Kernel Version 2.4.20-8
PDF: Palm OS 4.1
Phone: Motorola 2102.01.2F.03 (just kiddin')

I plan on moving away from Red Hat in favour of Suse. This will help plenty with adopting future NetWare versions. Strategic career stuff...

Its great to see so many BSD users on this forum. I love its no nonsense design and really wish I had more computers.

Here's a question for you guys: Should I load my dedicated server with FreeBSD or Red Hat 9? I am fairly proficcent with the shell of RH9 and the commands, etc. but I have heard that freebsd performs better. So, which one should I get?

I will have to ask a few questions:

RAID ?
number of nics
Purpose ? (www,ftp,dns,firewall+natd)

Once you have answered those, I will have to say FreeBSD or OpenBSD , lol

good luck

Hmm... I think phpSelectah is going to say BSD no matter what.

www server, i don't know how many nics (1 i would assume), 4 ip address, raid1.

But I only get a choice between freebsd and redhat. I don't get to choose openbsd. I could also choose windows if I wanted, but, well, no-one chooses windows for servers because it doesn't work.

I would go with FreeBSD -- no big surprise there.
For it's stability, it's security (capabilities), and for it's ability to handle the load.

Disk I/O is much more reliable and built for high-performance using soft updates than the non-synchronous updates which is less reliable and subject to disk corruption.

As of the 2.4 kernel release, Linux was approx 20% below the network capacity of the then present edition of BSD.

Security is much more robust and includes various kernel based firewall/packet filtering devices.

Best reason: ports collection!

There are some advantages to Linux -- but really, unless you need a JFS, or entirely specific commercial drivers... BSD is the way to go.

Cheers.