From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 12: 3: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9AB37B7BB for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:03:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e34JRcx29060; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:27:38 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Stephen Yip , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <<<<>>>>> Message-ID: <20000404122738.K20770@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000404182345.20647.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000405001124.A3248@theory5.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000405001124.A3248@theory5.physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:11:24AM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Rahul Siddharthan [000404 12:09] wrote: > Thus spake Stephen Yip on Apr 5, 2000 AD: > > > Dear support team of Free BSD, > > > > > > We are a company who looking for high performance and Open Platform > > yet very stables machines. So we have chose Free BSD 4.0 as our OS > > for it is configurable, high compatibility and yet high performance. > > Also our existing hardware (see below) is on your compatibility list > > too. > > I'm no expert on this, You've made that quite obvious, if you have nothing factual to say, then it's best not to speak at all. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." > but (at the risk of upsetting the more > knowledgeable people): according to the documentation FreeBSD 4.0 > is not yet ready for mission critical use, and FreeBSD on the alpha > is also very much a work in progress -- so FreeBSD 4.0 on alpha > definitely does not seem like a good idea for a "very stable" machine. > > On alphas, maybe Net/OpenBSD may be a better idea, since they have a > longer history behind them? Digital (now Tru64) Unix would be the best > choice if you can afford it, and Linux is very good too for our > purposes at least -- we have miatas (21164) running basically Red Hat > 5.2 with several upgraded packages and kernel 2.2.14, works fine for > us. > > Rahul. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message