Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:36:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <200607131436.k6DEa1E6017776@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060713125106.38081.qmail@web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> --- Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> > wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > > > the problem is that none of the Tier 1 > > hardware manufacturer's support > > > FreeBSD, and a growing number of places (ie. > > Adaptec / Intel) appear to be > > > dropping support for it as well ... > > > > But companies like 3Ware and Areca are > > supporting it and from what I see on > > the lists, people are voting with their money > > in their favor. > > Mainly because they had drivers that required > little modification from previous versions. Intel > has a few other things on their plate, releasing > more processors to bail out Freebsd's paltry > performance, so give them a break. > > How long are vendors supposed to wait for the > FreeBSD developers to deliver the performance > they've claimed that they can deliver? I know > several network appliance vendors all stuck on > FreeBSD 4, because 5 and 6 are a step backwards > performance-wise. Now they're saying 7 will be > the one. > > FreeBSD is the OS that cried "WOLF", and the > vendors are starting to ignore the calls. The > infrastructure is so poor (in terms of process > switching times and scheduler efficiencies), and > they seem clueless on how to fix it. Must be a troll. FreeBSD performance is not what holds it back. It competes well with others out there. ////jerry > > DT > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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