From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 05:53:10 2003 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 57B5A37B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 05:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB2843FA3 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 05:53:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zlists@mgm51.com) Received: from winbloat (unknown [10.0.1.10]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439102942D for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 08:53:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <200305170853080364.002CA283@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> References: <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (4) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 08:53:08 -0400 From: "MikeM" To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted 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: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:53:10 -0000 On 5/16/2003 at 9:00 PM David Kelly wrote: |On Friday 16 May 2003 07:57 pm, Aaron Peterson wrote: |[...] |> |> 1. There is better hardware support for linux, and more features |> because there are more developers. | |Better hardware support? I don't confuse "support of more hardware" with |the claim of "better hardware support." So what if by some chance |FreeBSD doesn't support some oddball reverse-engineered proprietary 1x |CDROM hardware interface that Linux supports? ============= In my experience, I had to switch my media server from FreeBSd to Linux due to the lack of full support for the 3Ware IDE RAID card in FreeBSD. I would have much preferred to keep the server in FreebSD due to the better "coherency" of the BSD's. But I'm not going to put 320GB of media files onto a server dependent upon a IDE controller that is not supported by the OS. I would hardly call the 3Ware IDE RAID controllers "oddball". IDE RAID arrays are presenting a valid, cost-effective alternative to the SCSI RAID arrays in many implementations, especially once the serial-ATA drives start shipping en masse. An excellent server OS like FreeBSD should provide proper support for those controllers.