Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:11:24 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Stephen Yip <stephenyw@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <<<<<need help>>>>>> Message-ID: <20000405001124.A3248@theory5.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000404182345.20647.qmail@hotmail.com>; from stephenyw@hotmail.com on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:25:48AM %2B0800 References: <20000404182345.20647.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Thus spake Stephen Yip on Apr 5, 2000 AD: > Dear support team of Free BSD, > > > We are a company who looking for high performance and Open Platform > yet very stables machines. So we have chose Free BSD 4.0 as our OS > for it is configurable, high compatibility and yet high performance. > Also our existing hardware (see below) is on your compatibility list > too. I'm no expert on this, but (at the risk of upsetting the more knowledgeable people): according to the documentation FreeBSD 4.0 is not yet ready for mission critical use, and FreeBSD on the alpha is also very much a work in progress -- so FreeBSD 4.0 on alpha definitely does not seem like a good idea for a "very stable" machine. On alphas, maybe Net/OpenBSD may be a better idea, since they have a longer history behind them? Digital (now Tru64) Unix would be the best choice if you can afford it, and Linux is very good too for our purposes at least -- we have miatas (21164) running basically Red Hat 5.2 with several upgraded packages and kernel 2.2.14, works fine for us. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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