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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:27:38 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc:        Stephen Yip <stephenyw@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: <<<<<need help>>>>>>
Message-ID:  <20000404122738.K20770@fw.wintelcom.net>
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 %2B0530
References:  <20000404182345.20647.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000405001124.A3248@theory5.physics.iisc.ernet.in>

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* Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> [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.
> 
> 
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