Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/02/07 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 07:06:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 06/01/07 22:45, Carl Fink wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:57:54PM -0000, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> > >
> > > > What about FreeBSD? I may stick that on an old machine just to try it.
> > > > I don't follow the politics, but maybe they would be your cup of tea?
> > > My ISP, Panix, uses NetBSD on their hosts. So far as I know, zero crashes
> > I got the impression that NetBSD was behind on the technology curve, 
> > being less capable in SMP systems and not having a journaling FS.
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html
> Neither of which make it any less capable as a router or firewall
> system.

Journaling, not so much, but the routing and firewalling chores of a 
large ISP can put a serious load on a machine.

Horizontal scaling to the rescue, I guess.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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