Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:29:11 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: If you think people use FreeBSD for server, you must've been outta school for long long time! Message-ID: <20010724162911.A790@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241856460.19087-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>; from sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:09:12PM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241856460.19087-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:09:12PM -0400, Sung Nae Cho wrote: > Servers are easy to make! You've clearly never had to build one. > Physics department has 2 server administrator (they use Redhat Linux) > compared to 40 Graduate students, 38 faculties with 70% using either > Linux or FreeBSD. And if one of those desktops falls down, it only inconveininces a single use. If the server falls down, all 78 people will be on the phone. Which is why reliability is the most important thing for a server. > However, I expect my FreeBSD to fly when I'm computing serious > problems. Sounds like you would be better served (heh!) by Linux. > If FreeBSD's going to ever survive in this world, it needs to > compete with Linux, Windows, OS X in desktop market! No, it doesn't. Neither does McDonald's. Different businesses. Besides, OS/X =is= FreeBSD with an Apple-developed GUI on top of it. But you're operating from a false assumption, that FreeBSD is even attempting to compete with Windows. Frankly, I don't care at all. And I'll bet neither does Yahoo! or any of the thousands of ISPs that earn their living off serving their clients with FreeBSD. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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