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Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: FreeBSD and hardware??
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> This
> shows more than a marginal increase in "market share". It suggests that
> Sun and others have good reason to be nervous about their future
> prospects,
> and need to find new ways to make money.

there is no sense of buying Sun hardware. they make excellent hardware but 
with more than "excellent" price, and their unix is damn slow compared to 
FreeBSD.


> <http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3787586>
>
> On the other hand, both Unix and Linux have a long way to go before they
> can match Microsoft's ease of use on the GUI. I believe the best way

unix is not windows replacements. all of these GUI overlays for which that 
much noise is heard are not just overlays, but are poorly designed even 
more poorly than windows.

Windows is poorly designed too but at least it's somehow complete.