From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 23:11:42 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 783481065689 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:11:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-09.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-09.bluehost.com [69.89.17.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41C378FC1A for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:11:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 9267 invoked by uid 0); 15 Dec 2008 23:11:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2008 23:11:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=mq/yq/sPJEDbss0UcxurJecs93DjGQAfmre3ubgUCwvKmma/j/yo7+BnZLbqWkjbMnep6CH+J3UrDA34sxKoUNbrRTtgCEBjdIUjRkBq2pXxzbTN+g7X792tpsi2kSVx; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LCMbG-0005iF-Ey for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:11:42 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:11:13 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:11:13 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081215231113.GB61220@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4946D8A7.9050507@brianwhalen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} 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: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:11:42 -0000 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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." --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklG5BEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKULhQCfcMNqM3/831NKamMU9X7DbKsy dpsAn0UTQni3Oa5edwLkpT7p7l51BfC2 =MR5Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx--