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Emmanuel. M. Decarie | 28 May 2002 22:49

NetBSD on a G4 400 (AGP)

Hello,

I'm a big fan of the BSDs. I'm actually running FreeBSD 4.2 on a test 
machine on my LAN and run OS X on my workstation.

I'm trying to evaluate the following for a G4 400 (AGP) that I want 
to use as a server that can scale up to 100,000 hits/day.

I have the choice to either run it with NetBSD, OS X (but not OS X 
Server) or Darwin.

- Will I get more stability/performance if I install NetBSD than OS X?

- On the macosx <at> perl.org, I see that some people have some problems 
installing some Apache Perl modules like Apache::Cookie on OS X (see 
the post below). Is NetBSD regarding Perl, MySQL, the Perl DBI 
module, the Perl Apache modules working well? I don't want to move 
from one OS to another to faces compatibility problems.

- I know that its hard to evaluate, and depends on a lot of factors, 
but is a G4 400 with NetBSD on it is comparable to say a PIII 800 Mhz?

Fundamentally, I rather use NetBSD because it seems more mature as a 
server than OS X. I don't need any graphical UI for this server.

TIA

Cheers
-Emmanuel
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Perry E. Metzger | 29 May 2002 01:59

Re: NetBSD on a G4 400 (AGP)


"Emmanuel. M. Decarie" <emm <at> scriptdigital.com> writes:
> - Will I get more stability/performance if I install NetBSD than OS X?

It depends on what you are doing.

> - On the macosx <at> perl.org, I see that some people have some problems
> installing some Apache Perl modules like Apache::Cookie on OS X (see
> the post below). Is NetBSD regarding Perl, MySQL, the Perl DBI module,
> the Perl Apache modules working well? I don't want to move from one OS
> to another to faces compatibility problems.

Most of that code is in pkgsrc and should just work.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry <at> wasabisystems.com
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