Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 22:07:01 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted Message-ID: <200305172207.01344.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <200305171128220315.00BAC143@sentry.24cl.com> References: <E19Gq1F-0006QW-00@host02.ipowerweb.com> <20030517141753.GA67866@ei.bzerk.org> <200305171128220315.00BAC143@sentry.24cl.com>
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On Saturday 17 May 2003 10:28 am, MikeM wrote: > > Please note that I make the difference between "able to run" and > "fully supported". I was able to get the 3Ware controller to run on > my FreeBSD box. But with 320GB of data at risk, I need the "fully > suported" attribute to be enabled. > > Believe me, I'd much prefer to run the media server on FreeBSD. And > I'd switch it over to FreeBSD in a heartbeat when/if the 3Ware > controllers (and associated utilities) are fully supported. So in other words, "3Ware IDE Raid" was the most important component of your server, irrespective as to whether other RAID solutions were available or better supported. In all honesty I can think of only one hardware item which is fully supported under FreeBSD, but I'm sure their must be. Very very little by Linux. To be "fully supported" one must be able to call the name brand's customer support hotline and get specific FreeBSD support. The hardware I'm thinking of is the products produced by Soekris Engineering, http://www.soekris.com/ . Not that Soekris provides a FreeBSD with their product or anything like that, but because I suspect most Soekris customers are using FreeBSD. Including myself. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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