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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> Tell that to the uncountable hordes of dedicated Linux users who don't
> know what they're missing and, as such, see no reason to even give
> FreeBSD a try.
>   
Many Linux people I know still think FreeBSD SMP sucks, that combined 
with a lack of journaling filesystem on BSD gives the Linux folks a 
small edge.  I know ZFS is out there, but nor for that long yet on FreeBSD.

Brian