nytsyn.com is a Linux box. Now, I don't have the usage on that, but let
me tell you, it's a damn well travelled site. (New York Times
Syndicate).
ralphlaurenfragrances.com....
Hell, go to: www.ironarmadillo.com/history.html
These sites from that page (EXCEPT NYNEX, that's a Solaris box) all run
Linux:
*New York Times Syndicate *Alliance for the Arts *Wall StreetJournal
*Studionet *Ralph Lauren Fragrances *Computer News Daily *Beyond
Computing *Nicole Miller *Your Health Daily *Career Express *Men's
Fitness *Sports Channel * *Leading Hotels of the World *Money Talks -
Investors Forum *Bayard Advertising *House of Seagrams *
>----------
>From: Jonathan M. Bresler[SMTP:jmb @
FRB .
GOV]
>Sent: Friday, October 31, 1997 8:53 AM
>To: Greg Whalin
>Cc: john; MIKE JENKINS; Firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM
>Subject: Re: Linux et al PFs
>
>>> FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD etc has proven to generally be reliablein
>>> high-stress conditions, but isn't quite as easy to setup.
>>>
>>
>>I think you may be thinking back to the time (a couple of years ago) when
>>it was quite popular to spout that BSD had more efficient networking.
>>Those days are long gone as I am sure anyone using both would be happy to
>>explain.
>
> rather than explain, please cite the best performance figures
>that you know of for any version of Linux.
>
> here they are regarding FreeBSD
>
> 200 GB of data per day (average)
> 228 GB per day (highest single day to date)
>
>kryten: {3} ftp ftp.cdrom.com
>Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com.
>220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-2.0.7 Wed Oct 22 02:30:03 PDT
>1997) ready.
>Name (ftp.cdrom.com:jmb): ftp
>331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
>Password:
>230-Welcome to wcarchive - home ftp site for Walnut Creek CDROM.
>230-There are currently 1556 users out of 2750 possible.
>[snip]
>230-This machine is a 200MHz P6 with 1GB of memory & 142GB of disk online.
>230-The operating system is FreeBSD. Should you wish to get your own copy of
>230-FreeBSD, see the pub/FreeBSD directory, visit http://www.freebsd.org or
>230-mail to info @
FreeBSD .
org for more information. FreeBSD on CDROM can be
>230-ordered using the WEB at http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/freebsd.htm or by
>230-sending email to orders @
cdrom .
com .
>[snip]
>
>>I am not trying to start the ever-famous Linux-BSD OS war again. I am
>>just stating that this answer was clearly uninformed as linux networking
>>has changed significantly since the time when you must have read some post
>>concerning it 2 years or more ago.
>
> hmmmm.....
>
>jmb
>
>
>
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