From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 19:43:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DF71065686 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-131.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-131.bluehost.com [67.222.39.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F97B8FC0C for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 15394 invoked by uid 0); 18 Nov 2008 19:43:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2008 19:43:17 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=cYrqO2h8F3IzbPO8sbeBgrucQxnC6gcdfpeIUfrCLBz6AjWZQCE0evIRS87jv5Fo0cYQcAdjIE7VZMB8sqbK7mFJ6+SB6RCkRnhQourcOxrl24MAskUvoxSbsVGzsOKI; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L2WTk-0001is-TB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:43:17 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:43:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:43:28 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081118194328.GE4787@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <7f8a05a80811171609h2f5742cfo2ae003415a99e45f@mail.gmail.com> <20081118121634.S84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118154226.GA20147@ourbrains.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uCPdOCrL+PnN2Vxy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081118154226.GA20147@ourbrains.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:20 -0000 --uCPdOCrL+PnN2Vxy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:42:26AM -0500, Dan wrote: > Wojciech Puchar(wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl)@2008.11.18 12:23:24 +0100: > > FreeBSD is very good in hardware support now, with most of drivers bein= g =20 > > very stable and high performance. > > > > for now there is no such thing, except ReactOS which is in early alpha = =20 > > state. >=20 > Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at > hardware level. You benchmark either, you'll get very close results in > speed and scalability. Both are well optimized. >=20 > Unix is for servers, Windoze/OSX is for clients. They're much better > clients than Unix. Cut and paste still doesn't work well in Unix GUIs. > Think about that. Uh . . . what? I'll try pasting something: Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Yep, works great. In fact, I *love* that middle-click paste thing, and on the rare occasion that I find myself sitting down in front of an MS Windows machine, I find myself quickly lamenting the existence of middle-click pasting, and start wondering why MS Windows is such a primitive excuse for a "desktop" operating system. I don't know where you get the idea that MS Windows is so good at being a "client" and FreeBSD is so bad at it. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Mike Maples, as quoted by James Gleick: "My job is to get a fair share of the software applications market, and to me that's 100 percent." --uCPdOCrL+PnN2Vxy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjGuAACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVcCQCgpypcZsoVdD+dsiz5i1x/X2Sv 7CkAn0juutXDoraEOaqo5LDee8EFCw3l =4cyr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uCPdOCrL+PnN2Vxy--