From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 7 16:43:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5105D37B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:43:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mobile.hub.org (u173n136.eastlink.ca [24.224.173.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4BB43FAF for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by mobile.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 373C63F88; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:43:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2651A3F81; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:43:30 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:43:30 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker X-X-Sender: scrappy@localhost To: Michael Sierchio Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "leak" in softupdates? In-Reply-To: <3E68BAC0.5080301@tenebras.com> Message-ID: <20030307204200.T58063@localhost> References: <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org> <20030307090033.GA61037@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030307101718.GA1908@kevad.internal> <20030307081643.B15693@hub.org> <3E68BAC0.5080301@tenebras.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > As for 'the enterprise', I think the only thing that I really find about > > FreeBSD that 'hurts' is that I can't go above the 4Gig of RAM limit within > > ia32, even though there are boards that do support it ... > > This is definitely an area of concern, and I *am* glad that you're > doing boundary testing ;-) > > The biggest obstacles to adoption in the enterprise aren't technical, > however. It's all about mind share, and IT staff tolerate all > manner of stupid limitations from Sun, HP, IBM, etc. Actually, one of our techs (I work at a University) got a call from IBM the other day wondering what RAID controller we were using with our IBM Servers, since another University is looking at buying a server from them and will be running FreeBSD on it ... they know we're running it and keep beating them up over it, so turned to us for advice ... very scary ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message