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Date:      Sat, 17 May 2003 11:28:22 -0400
From:      "MikeM" <zlists@mgm51.com>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted
Message-ID:  <200305171128220315.00BAC143@sentry.24cl.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030517141753.GA67866@ei.bzerk.org>
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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.







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