Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:24:03 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Freminlins" <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, danial_thom@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <003301c6afbb$4f1291c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20060713181058.56349.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com><002101c6af09$aacf32f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <eeef1a4c0607240646i318c8b83xb3f5f7e81f1fabd@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Freminlins" <freminlins@gmail.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; "Greg Barniskis" <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>; <danial_thom@yahoo.com>; <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>; "Nick Withers" <nick@nickwithers.com> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 6:46 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? > Ted, > > On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > > > > All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386 > > and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386. > > > > How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes: "Support for > 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel configuration option) has been > removed. Users running this class of CPU should use FreeBSD 5.*X* or > earlier." > > Oops, forgot about that. Use 5.x then. The statement is that newer versions of FreeBSD are slower than older versions. The point was that this isn't relevant to 90% of users for reasons I already cited. Ted
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