Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:02:08 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Michael Vince <mv@roq.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 'Ted Mittelstaedt' <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems Message-ID: <20051111040208.GB3852@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <43741174.9020303@roq.com> References: <02f301c5e610$4d3a51a0$c901a8c0@workdog> <43741174.9020303@roq.com>
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:35:16PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: > Gayn Winters wrote: > > > > I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD team aiming at only the latest > hardware, all I use is brand new server equipment. > I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development > could be hampered by the core guys trying to make stuff work on old > hardware, in fact if it was a fact that a lot more performance and > features could be in 6.x if they dropped support for everything below > 1ghz for x86 I would be happy, I got a few older machines but they could > go onto NetBSD since its a very similar OS as it has the same rc script > system which FreeBSD imported from NetBSD to start with. I would have to disagree strongly with this. I'v got about 50 PII machines deployed running FreeBSD 4/5, and I'd really hate to migrate to another BSD, just because ome one wanted to try to optimize for the latest gee whiz hardware. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
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