-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes exactly. I moved right from Slackware to OpenBSD and felt right at home (once I figured out what devices to talk to). But then I don't run an average web server so I couldn't really afford to do anything other than OBSD. In general I see the Linux/*BSD thang as being in the same corner of the universe just that sometimes there's a bit of friction (like developers who assume everyone uses bash. Those people I could shoot) Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > Ok, I know this is a linux list and all, but I just installed FreeBSD 4.4, > and well... It rocks. I used the mini-iso image, which fits on one of > those little 3 inch CDRs. > > Primarily, I did it for a qmail server. With linux, I was limited to 509 > concurrent outgoing connections without patching the kernel, and no patch > exists for the 2.4 kernels (at least that I could find). With FreeBSD, I > just add -DFD_SETSIZE=65536 to the compile options for qmail, and I'm able > to do over 32,000 concurrent outgoing connections, about 60 times more than > linux. I don't have it set that high of course, but, the ability is there. > > > And installing software from the ports tree works excellent. I tried > downloading apachetoolbox (apachetoolbox.com) and couldn't get it to compile > correctly, so I just went into the ports directory into each directory for > apache+modssl, mod_php4, and mysql, and did a make/make install in each one. > No errors, and it installed everything perfectly. > > If you haven't tried freebsd, now is a good time to give it a shot. I > selected the express install (and then just the development package) on the > cd, and then set up networking before I rebooted. My roommate did a regular > install and he had problems, but he was probably smoking crack. > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE74c51fexLsowstzcRAjb3AJ9Ergoug0yO1dwswPy+wGA3rqjfFACfewrB QJnQWqEHRlSFz7fAzU0//p8= =Zr4n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----