From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 08:28:24 2003 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 04D5737B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 08:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F381843F3F for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 08:28:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zlists@mgm51.com) Received: from winbloat (unknown [10.0.1.10]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403712942D for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 11:28:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <200305171128220315.00BAC143@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <20030517141753.GA67866@ei.bzerk.org> References: <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <200305170853080364.002CA283@sentry.24cl.com> <20030517141753.GA67866@ei.bzerk.org> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (4) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 11:28:22 -0400 From: "MikeM" To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted 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: Sat, 17 May 2003 15:28:24 -0000 On 5/17/2003 at 4:17 PM Ruben de Groot wrote: |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? ============= Yes. Please note that I make the difference between "able to run" and "fully supported". I was able to get the 3Ware controller to run on my FreeBSD box. But with 320GB of data at risk, I need the "fully suported" attribute to be enabled. Believe me, I'd much prefer to run the media server on FreeBSD. And I'd switch it over to FreeBSD in a heartbeat when/if the 3Ware controllers (and associated utilities) are fully supported.