For filePro and overall strength which is best, SUSE or RedHat?

Chad McWilliams chad at computiprint.com
Fri Mar 4 10:09:05 PST 2005


...
> Gotta put a plug in for freeBSD.
> You get to pick all three
> 	( ) Fast
> 	( ) Stable
> 	( ) Excellent support
> 
...
> --
> Walter
> 

I have to agree with Walter, and give FreeBSD a push.  I have recently
switched to FreeBSD 5.3 from SCO and verious Red Hat distributions.

I love the way the ports collection works and updating the system so far
has proved to be easy (the OS itself as well as the installed ports).
The ports for major applications (Samba, Postfix, MySQL, etc) are
regularly kept up to date.  Since the packet filter from OpenBSD has
been integrated by default, I use it as a firewall router as well.  It
performs very well.

I've had a few problems with filePro under FreeBSD 4.8, most beeing
adjustments that need to be made to handle the way FreeBSD handles
things differently that SCO.  But performance has been excellent and I
am very pleased with the system.

Just my 2 cents.

-Chad McWilliams



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