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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:47:47 -0700
From:      Linh Pham <question+advocacy@closedsrc.org>
To:        Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
Cc:        Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com>
Subject:   Re: Rumour Mill on FreeBSD Death Still ....
Message-ID:  <20031007174747.GA39880@q.closedsrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <200310070957.53327.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
References:  <20030929162808.41655.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> <200310061214.22886.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <20031006232213.202b3ce6.kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> <200310070957.53327.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>

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On 2003-10-07 09:57 -0700, Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> wrote:

# 1) FreeBSD doesn't have Java
#=20
# 2) FreeBSD doesn't have a usable GUI
#=20
# 3) FreeBSD has little hardware support (no USB, no Nvidia, etc)
#=20
# 4) FreeBSD can't do SMP at all
#=20
# 5) FreeBSD has no commercial support

6) FreeBSD doesn't have a lot of commercial software (compared to Oracle
or Domino on Linux)

7) FreeBSD. Isn't that a server-only operating system?

Those are two that I commonly run into.

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