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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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> for multiple OSes, but offers official support for only some of
> them.  If having vendor support is a deal-breaker - either for
> operational or contractual reasons - and the only alternative to
> Solaris is Windows<mumble> ....

well - solaris is not that bad. it's unix, you can work on it "normally", 
it's just slow etc...