Comments on: FreeBSD or Linux on the server? http://inluminent.com/2002/10/01/freebsd-or-linux-on-the-server/ my comments on business, marketing, advertising, email, CAN-SPAM, selling as a profession, photography, computers and other stuff... Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lew Payne http://inluminent.com/2002/10/01/freebsd-or-linux-on-the-server/#comment-175 Lew Payne Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=165#comment-175 In the real world, if you have a problem with a tire - you change the tire and not the car. If you have a problem with mySQL on FreeBSD, you change to PostgreSQL, you don't change the O/S. Eventually, people grow up and realize that. In the real world, if you have a problem with a tire - you change the tire and not the car.

If you have a problem with mySQL on FreeBSD, you change to PostgreSQL, you don’t change the O/S.

Eventually, people grow up and realize that.

]]> By: anonymous coward http://inluminent.com/2002/10/01/freebsd-or-linux-on-the-server/#comment-176 anonymous coward Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=165#comment-176 your spare tire car analogy is silly. alot of the time there is a good deal of code and queries that are optimized for mysql. switching an o/s merely requires backing up your databases and reinstalling whereas switching db servers requires quite a bit more intervention/time. of course an abstraction layer reduces this, but in my experience it's much easier to switch the os your spare tire car analogy is silly.

alot of the time there is a good deal of code and queries that are optimized for mysql. switching an o/s merely requires backing up your databases and reinstalling whereas switching db servers requires quite a bit more intervention/time. of course an abstraction layer reduces this, but in my experience it’s much easier to switch the os

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