From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 12:51:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5CB4C16A4E1 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8C6943D46 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:51:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 38083 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jul 2006 12:51:06 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=LJwbi3tpnwQvjpIL3bnovUrF+ihZDPL9l9Ban1SENMlP0Zx2FxvXF8Nhh3Z7PtNwAePMafGtRJ5vc3oLdxSoVpqIKaROEUUpWYLgUu5ImoTfQEXwGnwmnmECA+LsC31VK9SFJdXSghJQ0eQHCekUQ8T090NE0uHpUujY11RYHb4= ; Message-ID: <20060713125106.38081.qmail@web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.34.182.15] by web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:51:06 PDT Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:51:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: Francisco Reyes , "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:51:07 -0000 --- Francisco Reyes wrote: > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > the problem is that none of the Tier 1 > hardware manufacturer's support > > FreeBSD, and a growing number of places (ie. > Adaptec / Intel) appear to be > > dropping support for it as well ... > > But companies like 3Ware and Areca are > supporting it and from what I see on > the lists, people are voting with their money > in their favor. Mainly because they had drivers that required little modification from previous versions. Intel has a few other things on their plate, releasing more processors to bail out Freebsd's paltry performance, so give them a break. How long are vendors supposed to wait for the FreeBSD developers to deliver the performance they've claimed that they can deliver? I know several network appliance vendors all stuck on FreeBSD 4, because 5 and 6 are a step backwards performance-wise. Now they're saying 7 will be the one. FreeBSD is the OS that cried "WOLF", and the vendors are starting to ignore the calls. The infrastructure is so poor (in terms of process switching times and scheduler efficiencies), and they seem clueless on how to fix it. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com