Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:51:20 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104072149030.81918-100000@mobile.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20010407142725.A171295@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Duke Normandin wrote: > I understand your example. Setting aside the issue of kernel support > for garbage peripherals a-la Linux for a minute, is FreeBSD's > server-centric kernel inherantly not as well suited to perform as a > desktop platform as it could be? I realize that folks *are* using > FreeBSD as a desktop platform, but are they "forcing" it to do so at > the expense of the kernel's rock-solid stability? Bottom-line -- > should FreeBSD be chosen strictly for use as a server, and Linux as a > desktop platform, albeit the latter's instability that *sometimes* > occurs in their effort to support as much relevant hardware/software > as possible? I don't feel that I'm "forcing" myself to do anything ... but, then again, I'd rather pay a bit more for a SCSI hard drive that will work better on an multi-process system then IDE *shrug* I can't think of any hardware that I've ever had that I couldn't use under FreeBSD, but I also don't go out and by "whatever happens to be the cheapest today", I go with what will probably last me a little more then 6 mos ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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