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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2005 06:04:42 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <1122510.20050302060442@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEJMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <651762877.20050301124338@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEJMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> You can't be that confident that the other operating systems will work
> on the new hardware, either.

Mainstream hardware is usually well supported. Bleeding-edge
technologies and obsolete hardware may not be. Mainstream commercial
operating systems are probably a slightly better bet for obsolete
hardware, since they are more likely to have encountered it previously
and it's unusual for support to be explicitly removed.

-- 
Anthony




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