From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 25 15:46: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hellraiser.cannoncreek.com (unknown [202.78.79.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8924737B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mars@hellraiser.cannoncreek.com) Received: (qmail 21756 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Jul 2001 04:09:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mars G Miro Reply-To: mars@cannoncreek.com To: "Sung Nae Cho" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD ROCKs! (was Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:09:21 +0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <013d01c114c1$394ee540$4500a8c0@nomad> In-Reply-To: <013d01c114c1$394ee540$4500a8c0@nomad> Received: from the Dark Corners of Oblivion (172.16.1.254) X-Sender-Ip: 172.16.1.254 X-Copyright: 2001, Mars G. Miro, All Rights Reserved X-Notice: Redistribution and Duplication prohibited without proper consent of the Author MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072512092100.21676@hellraiser.cannoncreek.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry for feeding the troll.. ;-) > From: "Sung Nae Cho" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:40 AM > Subject: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! > .. > > but chewing on snickers bar sitting in corner of some room full of racks > > and HDD's. And, I bet most people use FreeBSD for desktop use, not as > > server use! Oh really? FreeBSD ROCKs: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html >>I've shut down the computer by plugging the power plug out > > just because I was upset or not in the moeed and all it cost me was some > > extra time booting due to file system check. I've never had any of my > > files, emails or anything like that being lost due to cold shutting my > > computer. I'm sick of this server administrators always crying for > > stability. If FreeBSD won't take use of all the capabilities offered in > > todays hard drives, I won't be using it! I'll switch right over to > > Linux. Come on, desktop is the king and FreeBSD should focus itself > > evolving in desktop market. If you gonna whine about stability, go back > > to FreeBSD 2.x, 3.x. For me, FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x should be more desktop > > oriented, and desktops need performance!!!!! > > FWIW, I use FreeBSD for my desktop (aside from our servers) and it also ROCKs! Maybe you ought to need to RTFM about tuning(8) your system. > > > > Sung N. Cho > > cheers mars -- I suggest you locate your hot tub outside your house, so it won't do too much damage if it catches fire or explodes. First you decide which direction your hot tub should face for maximum solar energy. After much trial and error, I have found that the best direction for a hot tub to face is up. -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message