Revisiting FreeBSD vs. Linux for MySQL

Dan writes "Jeremy Zawodny, who looks after all of Yahoo!'s MySQL servers says MySQL now runs very well on FreeBSD. He is no longer steering people toward Linux. There are two important things you should do to make the FreeBSD/MySQL combo work well: (1) build MySQL with LinuxThreads rather than FreeBSD's native threads, and (2) use MySQL 4.x or newer."

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Re:or (3) pkg-add -r postgresql7

[TheRaven64]

Up to a point this is true. However MySQL does win on one point, namely that if you do not need most of the features of a real RDBMS then it is faster than Postgres. If you are just using it as an information store for a web site, for example, then it may be a better choice. As always, right tool for the right job.