From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 22:59: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.callgtn.com (charlie.callgtn.com [209.47.57.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8ED637B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:58:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erothwell@callgtn.com) Received: from callgtn.com [24.114.251.145] by charlie.callgtn.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AA9E2FA0110; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:58:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE90AA0.1868DBBA@callgtn.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:58:56 -0400 From: Erik Rothwell Reply-To: erothwell@callgtn.com Organization: xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS's and proper computers References: <029601c0cdda$5b52c6d0$0400a8c0@oracle> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young wrote: > > If you took the trouble to read the thread properly you'd discover that > I was not the originator .... in fact I believe it was one of the experts, > & furthermore this IS still a FreeBSD list as far as I'm aware so AppleMac > fanciers should reasonably expect to cop some flak Well... I don't see anything improper with Apple hardware. Apple's hardware is generally very high quality, stable, reliable, hassle free stuff... just because it's a closed platform doesn't mean it's not "good." Au contraire, IBM PC-compatible hardware (the whole x86 platform) is largely an endeavour in allowing end-users to hook up crap hardware together, which is what Windows is a good OS to use for that sort of thing... it loves to run crap (viz., cheap) hardware. Which is why I use FreeBSD.. FreeBSD excels with *good* hardware on the x86 platform (and on Alpha, I suppose, but I have no experience there.) -- it croaks as far as supporting every $10 USB device or whatnot. Erik. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "C Peter Biessener" > To: "FreeBSD Questions" ; "Doug Young" > > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:03 AM > Subject: OS's and proper computers > > > > As someone around here said recently, FreeBSD users prefer "proper" > > > computers ie NOT AppleMacs :) Seriously though I was certainly aware of > > the > > > OpenBSD support, but thats not a relevant issue for me ... & many > > > "serious" users are probably in the same boat for that matter. > > > > I choose to take issue with that statement. IMO, a Macintosh IS the only > > "proper" computer - but I won't get into that debate here. Please DO NOT > > flame Macintoshes in the future, it doesn't belong here! As far as the > > IBM-compatible platform goes, FreeBSD does seem to be the way to go for an > > OS. Our FreeBSD machines are the only IBM-compatible machines which do > not > > require any support (after we set them up properly in our developmetn > lab). > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message