Re: Age old question: FBSD vs Linux
Max Gribov <max-snht/[email protected]>
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Jon Lewis wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Dan Ritter wrote: > > >> The administration tools and packaging in Debian are amazingly >> good. >> > > Especially once you put Ubuntu's pretty packaging around Debian :) > > sure, but so are ports in fbsd. also, fbsd has portaudit, a very nifty tool that will email the admin once a day about vulnerable installed software. then, the problem can be remedied with portupgrade -- all very seamless, i suppose minus the compile time. generally, i think the periodic(8) functionality with default scripts on fbsd rocks - very good out-of-the-box server health updates in your inbox (you can use some procmail magic on that). > I'm still partial to CentOS (RHEL) for servers, and AFAIK, there are > numerous handy things RPM does that dpkg doesn't. > > As for the religious issues...the answer is simple. The best OS is the > one you're most comfortable and experienced with. Technically better > doesn't do much good if you can't manage it as well. > > The hardware vs software RAID issue is tricky. Linux software RAID is > very flexible, easy to manage, and well supported. The downside is, all > the data has to pass over the various buses multiple times. Hardware RAID > cards typically have either very wimpy processors or cost a fortune (or > both), so when comparing hardware vs software RAID5, if your hw RAID card > is low end, write performance will likely lag compared to software RAID5 > on a system with decent idle CPU. > > I haven't seen a hardware RAID controller with management as straight > forward as mdadm. It's typically either cumbersome CLIs or web based > GUIs. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > -- 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