Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 08:53:08 -0400 From: "MikeM" <zlists@mgm51.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted Message-ID: <200305170853080364.002CA283@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> References: <E19Gq1F-0006QW-00@host02.ipowerweb.com> <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
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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.
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