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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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