Anyone used the RedHat Tux webserver?

[TurboFC3S]

I've been reading up on the RedHat Tux webserver ... all the reviews have said that's it's MUCH faster than Apache, like 3-5x faster. I was wanting to give it a try, but was curious if anybody here has experience with it. If so, whatdoya think of it? Does it work ok with PHP? I know it doesn't have SSL support yet, but that doesn't bother me.

[saithan]

Although I'm a die hard Apache man I too have read the good reviews on TUX. and also am curious to hear some ones actual experience with it. :)

[WilliamWallace]

ive used both and i can tell you that TUX is faster, but not as powerful as apache. it really depends on what your using it for. if your serving up dynamic content to alot of viewers, or sensitive info where security is a concern, i say go with apache.

if your running a small server with mostly static pages than go with TUX.

[stiles]

TUX can be used in conjunction with another webserver. You could run apache with whatever dynamic module you like and redirect all .php (or whatever) mime types to apache. Actually TUX's CGI engine is developed to be very fast (30% of webspec99 benchmark is CGI). You can also bind a CGI program to a specific CPU. On security I'm not going to say a whole lot about TUX, there is something worth mentioning. TUX uses linux capabilities (from the same withdrawn POSIX proposed RFC that everybody uses to impliment ACL's). It's what's called a change root daemon. It starts up as root but then changes it's UID (to nobody by default) once bonded to the privliaged port. All the TUX kernel threads run as user nobody.

TUX is really cool but it's still in the developement stage. Things like it's userspace module API are not finnished. It's a real shame I'd love a userspace JNI connector to tomcat. I wouldn't use it in production yet.