From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 16:14:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0498116A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:14:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-m23.mx.aol.com (imo-m23.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFD443D48 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:14:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-m23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.7.) id l.155.4055f974 (4410); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: <155.4055f974.2e99683f@aol.com> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:13:51 EDT To: daemon@foxchat.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5112 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:14:14 -0000 In a message dated 10/9/04 1:15:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, daemon@foxchat.net writes: >dang, how long is this thread gonna go on? Is it that important? I see >a lot of good questions and equally good answers on this list, but I >think this particular thread is starting to stoop beneath us all... Do you really read every thread? There are 100s of threads on here, many of them of no use, so why do you read them if you're not curious about it? It seems the most important "question" one could ask about FreeBSD is whether you should run 4.x or 5.x, and they always tell you to run 5.x because it suits the needs of Windbag River for guinea pigs. As long as you know you're a guinea pig, then you have your answer. I thought it was worth noting for the masses who unwittingly believe that a higher number release means better performance by default. Note that it also took quite a bit a beating to get them to admit that 1) They dont know the answer to the Subject or 2) Yahoo runs something quite different than what is available generally since they've "substantially" modified it. I yield the floor to the fat man in the toupee.