Chris Cason wrote:
 
> I have used both OS's extensively. I would not use anything other than
> FreeBSD for any 'serious' Unix work (in my case this means putting a system
> on the net).
> 
> For example, this very newsserver is running under FreeBSD. As is the povray
> and irtc webservers. Additionally, ftp.cdrom.com - the worlds busiest FTP
> server - runs FreeBSD (4gb RAM, 200gb or so of disk, 10,000 users. It does
> about 750 gigabytes of transfers per day). Guess what OS Microsoft uses
> for Hotmail's web servers ? NT, you may think. Nope. FreeBSD. Yahoo - the
> web's busiest portal site - also used FreeBSD. The list goes on.
> -- Chris Cason
>    [povray.org admin]

  There has been a noticable improvement in the access time to this server as
of late. Is this due to the changes made to the server and the software you
are running ?

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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