Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:17:53 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: MikeM <zlists@mgm51.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted Message-ID: <20030517141753.GA67866@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <200305170853080364.002CA283@sentry.24cl.com> References: <E19Gq1F-0006QW-00@host02.ipowerweb.com> <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <200305170853080364.002CA283@sentry.24cl.com>
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On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:53:08AM -0400, MikeM typed: > On 5/16/2003 at 9:00 PM David Kelly wrote: > > |On Friday 16 May 2003 07:57 pm, Aaron Peterson wrote: > |[...] > |> > |> 1. There is better hardware support for linux, and more features > |> because there are more developers. > | > |Better hardware support? I don't confuse "support of more hardware" with > |the claim of "better hardware support." So what if by some chance > |FreeBSD doesn't support some oddball reverse-engineered proprietary 1x > |CDROM hardware interface that Linux supports? > ============= > > > In my experience, I had to switch my media server from FreeBSd to Linux due > to the lack of full support for the 3Ware IDE RAID card in FreeBSD. Really? I have a 3ware ATA RAID adapter which is working without any problems. Did you have device twe in your kernel? Ruben > I would have much preferred to keep the server in FreebSD due to the better > "coherency" of the BSD's. But I'm not going to put 320GB of media files > onto a server dependent upon a IDE controller that is not supported by the > OS. > > I would hardly call the 3Ware IDE RAID controllers "oddball". IDE RAID > arrays are presenting a valid, cost-effective alternative to the SCSI RAID > arrays in many implementations, especially once the serial-ATA drives start > shipping en masse. An excellent server OS like FreeBSD should provide > proper support for those controllers. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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