From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 15:47:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from castor.ssimicro.com (birch.ssimicro.com [199.247.51.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD8237B405 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmitry@ssimicro.com) Received: from 199.247.84.60 (84x60.ssimicro.com [199.247.84.60]) by castor.ssimicro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA19532; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:47:17 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:48:28 -0600 From: "Dmitry V. Dvoinikov" X-Blank: Reply-To: "Dmitry V. Dvoinikov" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <0716520512.20010724164828@ssimicro.com> To: Sung Nae Cho Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't care what you think IMHO whoever starts a message with this should be ready to be answered the same :) Personally I like FreeBSD for exactly not playing for publicity, like Linux & Co. And I DO hope the core team will be able to make 4.4. release the best of them all, just like they think they would. Good luck, guys. Best regards, Dmitry Dvoinikov mailto:dmitry@ssimicro.com Original message follows: > Hi, > This is regarding that recent performance issue (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, > Solaris). I don't care what you (people who are so stuck up with > stability) think, I use FreeBSD as a desktop and I need performance! I > have "async" otpion turned on in my /etc/fstab, I'm glad the FreeBSD by > default enables the write cache for my hard disks. Come on, wake up! > FreeBSD is no longer for some dorky server administrator who does nothing > but chewing on snickers bar sitting in corner of some room full of racks > and HDD's. And, I bet most people use FreeBSD for desktop use, not as > server use! I've shut down the computer by plugging the power plug out > just because I was upset or not in the moeed and all it cost me was some > extra time booting due to file system check. I've never had any of my > files, emails or anything like that being lost due to cold shutting my > computer. I'm sick of this server administrators always crying for > stability. If FreeBSD won't take use of all the capabilities offered in > todays hard drives, I won't be using it! I'll switch right over to Linux. > Come on, desktop is the king and FreeBSD should focus itself evolving in > desktop market. If you gonna whine about stability, go back to FreeBSD > 2.x, 3.x. For me, FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x should be more desktop oriented, and > desktops need performance!!!!! > Sung N. Cho > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message