Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:15:36 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Purchased Binaries Message-ID: <AANLkTi=N_dv=x%2BX5w-r2CeoQA2XnQdqhELyhEHpeyx17@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <98DE64E1-EE7F-4B52-A204-A2AF70005FDE@lafn.org> References: <5F4DD89C-5F3B-46B8-BA91-A25B8BF11EEB@lafn.org> <20110304224553.GD28710@comcast.net> <98DE64E1-EE7F-4B52-A204-A2AF70005FDE@lafn.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: > Pretty much I will have the real software on Monday and will need to get = it up and going very quickly. =A0I want to use FreeBSD because all the othe= r parts of what he needs I already have running on various FreeBSD servers.= =A0Also, I very much like the FreeBSD approach (like to pf) of don't break= things that previously worked without workarounds so that production syste= ms are not killed. The only problem I can see -- assuming it runs at all -- is that any tech support contracts for the software will likely assume you're running it under Linux. They may not be happy trying to troubleshoot it under FreeBSD and may want to blame the OS for any problems you encounter. I try to run commercial software on "officially supported" operating systems just for that reason.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTi=N_dv=x%2BX5w-r2CeoQA2XnQdqhELyhEHpeyx17>