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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:11:13 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
Message-ID:  <20081215231113.GB61220@kokopelli.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <4946D8A7.9050507@brianwhalen.net>
References:  <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211203121.L1372@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211195504.GA15968@kokopelli.hydra> <200812111447.15299.perlcat@alltel.net> <1229218767.18610.39.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081215022131.GB5527@kokopelli.hydra> <1229336056.1647.23.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081215201201.GA60187@kokopelli.hydra> <4946D8A7.9050507@brianwhalen.net>

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 02:22:31PM -0800, Brian Whalen wrote:
> 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.
> > =20
> Many Linux people I know still think FreeBSD SMP sucks, that combined=20
> with a lack of journaling filesystem on BSD gives the Linux folks a=20
> small edge.  I know ZFS is out there, but nor for that long yet on FreeBS=
D.

Many Linux people I know don't know about FreeBSD SMP and filesystem
matters -- or much of anything else about it, for that matter.  Some even
think FreeBSD is a Linux distribution.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Jon Postel, RFC 761: "[B]e conservative in what you do, be liberal
in what you accept from others."

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