From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 17:14:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4656D106564A for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:14:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD39B8FC16 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:14:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with SMTP id mBBHEdFA002964 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:14:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:14:24 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20081211181424.d67b1755.dick@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <20081211170906.R1698@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> <20081207121431.5dcb37f9@gom.home> <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211122714.W4172@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211071914.278ae942@scorpio> <20081211133632.114d77c7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20081211155208.D1327@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <18753.13932.981393.111999@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081211170906.R1698@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.3; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors 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: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:14:29 -0000 On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:09:39 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > well - solaris is not that bad. it's unix, you can work on it > "normally", it's just slow etc... Considering the things the system is doing for me it certainly is not slow. It's a rock-solid UNIX but like sendmail and it's former bugs and security hazards, a bad name does not go away easy. People tend to repeat eachother for a very long time. "Slowaris" is one of those terms. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol)