Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:18:28 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? Message-ID: <20081121211828.GA9493@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <1110372547-1227199990-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-585491769-@bxe064.bisx.produk.on.blackberry> References: <20081118141648.M84450@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1110372547-1227199990-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-585491769-@bxe064.bisx.produk.on.blackberry>
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--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:53:03PM +0000, twelcome@mobileemail.vodafonesa.c= o.za wrote: >=20 > (Forgive the top-posting) Why? >=20 > Your assertion that "linux is both low end unix and low end windows repla= cement" is factually wrong: As a high end unix I think it's earned it's str= ipes, currently dominating the top 500 supercomputer systems in the world, = some no other unix has managed to accomplish this time round. Notably, when= compared to freebsd it offers support for virtualisation where bsd is nowh= ere close to doing, just one example of high end unix feature it provides. = As a gui desktop, I'm certain kde is a superior interface to windows in man= y ways. >=20 While I agree that, without some kind of supporting argument, the statement that Linux systems are "low end" Unix replacements are kind of spurious sounding, I don't think that market share is really an effective metric for determination of the quality of a replacement for a given class of OS. I'm also not sure I see how virtualization makes or breaks the quality of any Unix-like system, or qualifies it as "high end". --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Zat was zen, dis is tao. http://tao.apotheon.org --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkknJaQACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUaRQCgw43vS7XazE3sXHsbOdnjgq74 Y9wAoJG8VRwWTB7YmlnZIobHUN6nuyEW =/BnO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--
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