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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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> after reading all these posts, i've still come up with this
> answer after looking ..
> "freebsd - the power to serve"

Might one reasonably surmise that "the power to serve" implies
doing a good job of running server software?  Like mail servers,
FTP servers, web servers, file servers, database servers, ssh
servers, even - gasp - X11 servers?