Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:53:49 -0500 From: "Smith, Warren" <WASmith@cdocs.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Message-ID: <EF2DFA59CDA5354DAFBD63C3D40F03F6237C7D@exch.cds-master.cdocs.com>
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IMHO FreeBSD works great as a server AND a workstation. I moved from Windoze to FreeBSD on my desktop about 2 years ago and have never looked back. At the ISP I used to work for, our sysadmin had migrated all of our Linux servers to FreeBSD. Our initial move to FreeBSD was prompted by security and reliability issues with the Linux distribution we were running. FreeBSD was rock-solid in both areas "out-of-the-box". Had that not been the case, we probably would have continued using Linux. Sysinstall options that make installing a "workstation" a little more convenient would be nice, but I would hate to see the "default" install for FreeBSD be any more "workstation" slanted. The server-centric nature of FreeBSD is the whole reason I even know about what has become my favorite OS. -- Warren Smith Analyst/Programmer -----Original Message----- From: Sung Nae Cho [mailto:sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:41 PM To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! 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
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