Wyndowz izun’t teh gratest serber platform in mani respekts, it iz tru, but noe platform can klaym tu be teh best. NetBSD haz teh bestest netwurking, Linux wib teh Web100 patch next-bestest.
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OpenBSD haz teh bestest sekurity ob teh free OS’, FreeBSD adn MirBSD next bestest. Trusted IRIX adn Trusted Solaris aer eben better, adn VMS haz neber been haked.
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Fore stability, yu kneed a carrier grayd OS, adn there aren’t tu mani ob tehm. There ARE carrier grayd Linuxes, but they’re nawt cheap adn hab so mush ripped out dat it’s nawt cleer iffen yu can reely cawl tehm Linux.
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Iffen yu’re uzing a serber farm, then Plan 9 iz bestest. There aer no obber free OS’ that can migrayt threads, only whole processes, adn teh reely fast webserbers aer mobing away from multi-threaded models tu single threads, single processes, where yu can’t parallelize mush anyway.
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Fore webserber purrformance, Apache iz good but there aer many that aer faster and more reliable. Fore security, Roxen iz one ob teh best. Apache 2.x still izn’t as trusted az Apache 1.x, wun reezun Slashdot still uze Apache 1.x. But yu want tu uze Apache fore mowst web applikashuns, unless it’s a Java servlet. Evun den, Tomcat iz wun ob teh bestest servlet enjins owt there.
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So far, I’b nawt eben cobered such thingz az backups (Wyndows iz still wun ob teh best there), serber administrashun (I hab to admit that Wyndows iz still better than Webmin or Linuxconf) oar driber abailability (Wyndows wiz dat wun az well, for now).
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Unless there’z a definut parameter to mezur wib, anyfing can be cawlld best, mayking it pointless tu cawl it such.