Re: GURU needed: Linux vs. FreeBSD

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 06:53:06 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, menion wrote:

> Dancer wrote:
> >
> > Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> > >
> > > | I think that Deja News (http://www.dejanews.com/) is run on Linux. I can't
> > >
> > > according to netcraft.com:
> > >
> > > www.dejanews.com is running Apache/1.3b5 mod_perl/1.08 on Linux.
> >
> > Hotmail also, I'm told.
> >
> I belive that hotmail runs on SUN's. Microsoft tried to change it to NT
> but a whole boatload of enginners could not have kept the Titanic afloat
> either.
>
IIRC Yahoo runs on FreeBSD. That's probably the closest to DejaNews type
of usage. BTW, what's the point of those comparisons? Fact being that
pretty heavy loaded servers run on each system, so they are *suitable* for
such task.

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