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Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
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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.