Re: Age old question: FBSD vs Linux
Dan Ritter <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:05:44AM -0700, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > Hiya James, > > Long time no talk! Where have you been hiding? > > I just talked to my WEB server admin yesterday. We're do for a server > upgrade and he wants to switch from freebsd to debian. He said he's been > studying up on the subject and debian does some critical things better. One > thing I remember he specifically mentioned was kernal upgrades that don't > require a full os replacement or some such thing. The only things that require a reboot in Debian are (a) hardware failures that can't be hotswapped and (b) kernel upgrades. Technically you can get around (b) with a trick called "three-kernel-monte" but it's not for production use, just for showing off. The administration tools and packaging in Debian are amazingly good. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list