[ale] Linux or *BSD for Samba

[Kenneth W Cochran]

Just a couple of minor points to V's reply...

>Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:11:27 -0400
>From: Vernard Martin <vernard at cc.gatech.edu>
>To: Jeff Hubbs <jhubbs at telocity.com>
>Cc: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] Linux or *BSD for Samba
>
>BSD is actually several OSes and not just one. The three
>big contenders are NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. And when
>someone says that BSD is better than X, you should always
>ask which version they are using. Kinda like when folks
>rever to linux but are thinking of the 2.2 kernel rather
>than the 2.4 kernel. Anyway, FreeBSD and NetBSD have had a
>long record of having exceptional performance with respect
>to network related activities such as serving as an
>FTPserver, NFS server, email server, etc. And I seem to
>recall that a NetBSD box holds the record for most
>bandwidth served in one day (the ftp.cdrom.com machine
>served over a terabyte of data one day or soemthing in that

That would be FreeBSD (serving up ftp.cdrom.com). :)

>range). And it is uniformly accepted that NetBSD will give
>you better performance than a Linux system using pretty
>much the same hardware.
>
>Now, the tricky part: the difference in performance is
>going to be based on several factors and may not big enough
>to make it really that relevant. If you are just serving
>user files to a half dozen windows machines over samba then
>I think you really won't notice the difference. If you are
>tryign to run a high bandwidth webserver than you are going
>to really notice the difference.  Maintenacne of a BSD
>machines requires a bit more knowledge of unix systems than
>a linux distro using a package management system. Also,
>familiarity with a system will usually override any
>perceived gain in performance.

FreeBSD's package management system is very good & (at least) I
have found it to be easy to maintain.  YMMV of course... :)

>hope this helps
>
>Vernard
>-- 
>Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/     
>        "Anything worth fighting over is worth fighting dirty over"
>--

-kc
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