From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 13 05:47:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B631E16A41F for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:47:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3259243D45 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:47:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k5D5ktx18978; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , "Kris Kennaway" Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:46:55 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20060613000605.85741.qmail@web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Beech Rintoul Subject: RE: FreeBSD is #1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:47:07 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Danial Thom >Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:06 PM >To: Kris Kennaway >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Beech Rintoul >Subject: Re: FreeBSD is #1 > > > > >--- Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:36:24PM -0700, >> Danial Thom wrote: >> > Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) >> >> At this point FreeBSD 6.x has had way more >> intensive stress testing >> and QA by the project than 4.x did. It is >> stable. >> >> Kris >> > >I'm not saying that its not, only that I know a >lot of ISPs and more of them are running 4 than >6. In fact I know exactly 0 running 6. So >proclaiming that Freebsd is #1 without qualifying >what version they are running doesn't really say >anything. > We are running 6 on our news and radius server. In fact we are gradually switching over to 6.1 for a lot of things. But it takes a huge amount of time to move to new platforms, and it is not something your customers pay you for doing. Ted