From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 13:06:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A9916A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:06:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D9843D54 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:06:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j22D6fb27061 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 05:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 05:06:36 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 In-Reply-To: <1122510.20050302060442@wanadoo.fr> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:06:37 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:05 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? > > > 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. > Now let's see, your last post was jus advocating buying everything new, you said you bought your house, car, etc. all new... and here your advocating obsolete hardware? Is this a flip-flop? Ted