RE: Cluster Software - Opinions

>From: LULANI Olsi <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: Cluster Software - Opinions
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:52:05 +0100
>
>The best in the server area is FreeBSD. Core of this system has been used
>even by Juniper Networks as the OS behind their Internet Backbone Routers.
>It is highly stable but as it is always been said it is a different frame 
>of
>mind and philosophy. There is also NetBSD as the OS that keeps the lead in
>porting and code quality. Very clean code, very structured, easily portable
>to new machines. The ideal BSD for embedded applications. The last big one
>of the kind is OpenBSD. It is the ideal OS for firewalls, VPN gateways and
>routing in the PC platform. They all require different tools to be managed
>and are more true to original Unix from the good old days of academic
>Internet than the new toy of the people, Linux.
>
>
>Sincerely
>Mr. Olsi Lulani
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Space [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:28 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Cluster Software - Opinions
>
>[email protected] wrote:
>
> >The latest offering from Apple (MAC OS X) is based on FreeBSD.  Oracle 
>has
>also offered up a development version of the server for this version as
>well.  BSD is continuing to be a force after all these years!
> >
> >
>Hmm, the only 'nix I've played with is Linux.  Could you offer some
>ideas which BSD is better as a general purpose OS?  What about
>networking, firewalls and such?  Or are they all basically the same?
>
>Not trying to start a flamewar, just inexperienced, and curious.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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linux is a clone of unix-- bsd's come from att, but no residual code any 
more. Linux has asymetric mount

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