From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 21:18:28 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 6B597106567A for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:18:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-20.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-20.bluehost.com [69.89.20.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CAE88FC19 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:18:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 25079 invoked by uid 0); 21 Nov 2008 21:18:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2008 21:18:25 -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=LS7D19DesDsoPrTuzoNNMPIKWj71ETkygDSMuiAfpkJHOceZABvEWJjkypXU8ehR14nGJzrLOQL17I8UFVz2AWKNEfF5o03RReZ+YTWtEC3pg4uG5jpW1Qsie/jDjnkb; 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 1L3dOS-0007QK-Tk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:18:25 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:18:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:18:28 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081121211828.GA9493@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081118141648.M84450@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1110372547-1227199990-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-585491769-@bxe064.bisx.produk.on.blackberry> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1110372547-1227199990-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-585491769-@bxe064.bisx.produk.on.blackberry> 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: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:18:28 -0000 --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--