Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:17:50 +0000 From: Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU Message-ID: <1106237870l.44276l.0l@BARTON> In-Reply-To: <200501200855.j0K8tdsS021670@mp.cs.niu.edu> (from bennett@cs.niu.edu on Thu Jan 20 03:55:39 2005) References: <200501200855.j0K8tdsS021670@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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> The recent discussion in this thread causes me to wonder =20 > whether > FreeBSD's performance on older, slower equipment could be a > contributing > factor to why hardware vendors like Dell and ATI are willing to > provide only > limited support for LINUX and none at all for FreeBSD. After all, if > FreeBSD > lets a Pentium II w/MMX handle, for example, a moderately loaded web > site or > large network firewall or some other reasonable use and thereby > obviating many > purchases of hardware upgrades, why would they want to encourage its > use? > Here is an interview with ati. The sad part is they give a solid no to =20 bsd support. http://www.rage3d.com/index.php?node=3Dgetarticle&u=3Dcontent%2Finterviews%= =20 2FATIChats%2F&p=3D4
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