From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 12 3: 6:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C2137B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810A143E31 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id F3D08534A; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:06:53 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Wes Peters Cc: Thierry Herbelot , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Listening to users [was Re: Package system wishlist] References: <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com> <3D2CAAC1.5CF66C96@herbelot.com> <3D2E8A43.AF04381@softweyr.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Jul 2002 12:06:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3D2E8A43.AF04381@softweyr.com> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters writes: > Really? Believe it or not, I've formerly (and currently) developed on > SGI and Sun machines, along with IBM, HP, DEC, Motorola, Intel, NCR, > Unisys, Sequent, CCI, Arete/Arix, and even Radio Shack UNIX-ish > machines, and I strongly prefer FreeBSD to any of them. Agreed. I've used SGI, Sun and Digital systems for both fun and profit in the past, and will choose FreeBSD over them any day of the week. It's a far more comfortable development environment, and locating, installing and configuring any third-party tools I might need is far easier than on any commercial Unix I know of. Anyone who thinks IRIX, Solaris or Tru64 have better hardware support than FreeBSD is losing sight of the fact that they are designed to run on a very limited and tightly controlled range of hardware, while FreeBSD will run (with a little effort) on practically anything you throw at it, within reason. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message