From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 7 17:51:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (SHW39-29.accesscable.net [24.138.39.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC7137B424 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f380pKX09007; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:51:31 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:51:20 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River In-Reply-To: <20010407142725.A171295@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Duke Normandin wrote: > I understand your example. Setting aside the issue of kernel support > for garbage peripherals a-la Linux for a minute, is FreeBSD's > server-centric kernel inherantly not as well suited to perform as a > desktop platform as it could be? I realize that folks *are* using > FreeBSD as a desktop platform, but are they "forcing" it to do so at > the expense of the kernel's rock-solid stability? Bottom-line -- > should FreeBSD be chosen strictly for use as a server, and Linux as a > desktop platform, albeit the latter's instability that *sometimes* > occurs in their effort to support as much relevant hardware/software > as possible? I don't feel that I'm "forcing" myself to do anything ... but, then again, I'd rather pay a bit more for a SCSI hard drive that will work better on an multi-process system then IDE *shrug* I can't think of any hardware that I've ever had that I couldn't use under FreeBSD, but I also don't go out and by "whatever happens to be the cheapest today", I go with what will probably last me a little more then 6 mos ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message