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FreeBSD 7/8 are really starting to feel like the decisions made in 5.x are starting the pay off. Between the ULE Scheduler, ZFS filesystem, DTrace (even if not

by pquerna 17y ago

FreeBSD 7/8 are really starting to feel like the decisions made in 5.x are starting the pay off. Between the ULE Scheduler, ZFS filesystem, DTrace (even if not as good as on Solaris) and the new Jails, Its a pretty sweet technology packed release. Hopefully we will be upgrading some of the apache.org server soon :)

ThinkWriteMute 17y ago
Speaking of Apache, why do none of the Linux distros use YAWS? It's always Apache.
- nailer 17y ago
  Both Fedora and Ubuntu include nginx. The reason Apache HTTPd is the default is because people know it (that said, I don't entirely agree with that reasoning).
- joeyo 17y ago
  Debian has it. joey@mute:~$ apt-cache search yaws yaws - High performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang
rbanffy 17y ago
If you want ZFS and DTrace, is there a good reason to prefer FreeBSD to OpenSolaris?
- pquerna 17y ago
  Because the FreeBSD userland enviroment and ports collection are sane, and there is a reasonable way to do upgrades, while with OpenSolaris you have... what?
  - ThinkWriteMute 17y ago
    I've heard the community around BDS tends to make the Linux community look like a bunch of happy go lucky hippies.
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    A Synaptic-like package manager? It's really easy to use and self-updates the system every time there is something new without need to make the human attached to the computer go and check.
- tsuraan 17y ago
  The big one is that there's a pretty good chance FBSD will run on your hardware, and there's a really slim chance that OpenSolaris will. Solaris just doesn't have the driver selection that BSDs or Linux have.
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    I can't confirm your observation. I have thrown OSol on many notebooks and it found stuff out-of-the-box my Linux installs didn't. Oddly enough, the Broadcom wireless one of them uses had problems, but that's about all the problems I had (and that Broadcom was a source of grief for a long time under Linux). It sure doesn't seem pickier than Linux or BSD.
- oomkiller 17y ago
  FreeBSD seems to make more sense to me than Solaris or OpenSolaris. I always have to go looking for HOWTOs on simple things. Plus, there is more available for it, and IMO it has a better community.

by pquerna 17y ago

ThinkWriteMute 17y ago

Speaking of Apache, why do none of the Linux distros use YAWS? It's always Apache.

nailer 17y ago
Both Fedora and Ubuntu include nginx. The reason Apache HTTPd is the default is because people know it (that said, I don't entirely agree with that reasoning).
joeyo 17y ago
Debian has it. joey@mute:~$ apt-cache search yaws yaws - High performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang

rbanffy 17y ago

If you want ZFS and DTrace, is there a good reason to prefer FreeBSD to OpenSolaris?

pquerna 17y ago
Because the FreeBSD userland enviroment and ports collection are sane, and there is a reasonable way to do upgrades, while with OpenSolaris you have... what?
- ThinkWriteMute 17y ago
  I've heard the community around BDS tends to make the Linux community look like a bunch of happy go lucky hippies.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  A Synaptic-like package manager? It's really easy to use and self-updates the system every time there is something new without need to make the human attached to the computer go and check.
tsuraan 17y ago
The big one is that there's a pretty good chance FBSD will run on your hardware, and there's a really slim chance that OpenSolaris will. Solaris just doesn't have the driver selection that BSDs or Linux have.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  I can't confirm your observation. I have thrown OSol on many notebooks and it found stuff out-of-the-box my Linux installs didn't. Oddly enough, the Broadcom wireless one of them uses had problems, but that's about all the problems I had (and that Broadcom was a source of grief for a long time under Linux). It sure doesn't seem pickier than Linux or BSD.
oomkiller 17y ago
FreeBSD seems to make more sense to me than Solaris or OpenSolaris. I always have to go looking for HOWTOs on simple things. Plus, there is more available for it, and IMO it has a better community.