From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 19:28:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81FA16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:28:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stewie.obfuscated.net (stewie.obfuscated.net [66.118.188.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF0743D1F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:28:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@obmail.net) Received: from [192.168.1.104] (653259hfc120.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.59.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by stewie.obfuscated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39C46104; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:28:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <13c.a0c43e8.2f0ebcef@aol.com> References: <13c.a0c43e8.2f0ebcef@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <104435F2-6019-11D9-B88F-00039367611E@obmail.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: M Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:27:54 -0500 To: Tm4528@aol.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:28:43 -0000 On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Tm4528@aol.com wrote: > 5.3 is not ready for production. 4.10 should be fully supported until > it is. > > TM > The moment you start paying for development and support I'll agree with you. When I need a particularly low per packet cost such as a firewall I'll throw down some OpenBSD much as I hate to do it. On the other hand there are plenty of workloads I work with where FreeBSD 5 works great for me. Am I pissed as hell at that little NFS bug that's been floating around out there? Sure, but then I didn't drop the cash on a big Sun box to handle the load. While were at it, go look at what you get with Solaris these days. Sun's new OS can't fix the issues they are having with Sun's new hardware. With FreeBSD you have options 1) do the work yourself 2) live with it 3) use another OS that you are either paying for or not. In the mean time we all know you're not happy and none of us are capable of understanding the subtle and nuanced technical reasons why FreeBSD sucks.