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<DIV><FONT size=2>Yep same issue on FreeBSD here.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Its a very solid hosting platform. </FONT><FONT size=2>Good
security good support,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>easy to use packages. Hardware </FONT><FONT size=2>support is
good, had a few</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>minor niggles with some very new </FONT><FONT size=2>opteron
boards ( netcard</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>support ) but all fixed quickly. Anyone considering it
should</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>pick the 5.x stream 5.2.1-RELEASE atm soon to be
5.3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>as it contains significant increase in performance for
SMP</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>kernels. For game servers however if u try the
5-CURRENT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>ensure u use the old BSD scheduler as the new one
has</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>poor performance for servers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> Steve / K</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=defilm@acm.org href="mailto:defilm@acm.org">Mark J. DeFilippis</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cod@icculus.org
href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 22 September 2004 19:38</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cod] 1.41b</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>Just out of curiosity...<BR><BR>Anyone seeing any of this
in FreeBsd?, RH E3.0?<BR><BR>I have the latest Debian, but the thing that
drove me to<BR>RH E3.0 was the version control. Wor inexpensive
machines<BR>where I don't have an extra $800 for a license, Freebsd,
with<BR>emphasis on the Free part...<BR><BR>Somewhat, we can blame people like
my boss. As CTO, I report<BR>to CIO. He, as many others, read the
"market-tecture mags",<BR>and did not consider Linux a true enterprise class
system.<BR><BR>In response, Redhat offers professional service, SLA's,
<BR>CHanges RH 9.0 to new name ES3.0. Raises the price<BR>on the
server from $99 to $1,399.<BR><BR>Now, my boss has no problems. We buy a
license. Get<BR>quantity discount. Purchase maintenance, all the big
$<BR>items corporate CIO's need to see to feel cozy.<BR><BR>But that left us
with Fudora, Red Hat "Well, if you want the<BR>bleeding edge, crashing all the
time, use click HERE, or<BR>to use ES WS for only $1000, click
here".<BR><BR>Slackware is maintained by one person in reality. If he gets
hit<BR>by a bus, the first Linux version I ever started out with<BR>goes
away?<BR><BR>AT&T couldn't sell Unix. Unix Systems Labs couldn't do
anything<BR>with it, even though SCO wanted to buy it. FInally, they
sold<BR>the rights to SCO. Now SCO can justify the increased prices<BR>to
their SCO Unix serverware market, etc. Linux comes along and<BR>kills
that. THe suit, threats.. I still run Linux until they come
in<BR>to my home office and look. But if support dries up, the reality
is<BR>FreeBsd will be there.<BR><BR>BTW... I am not particularly fond of
FreeBsd, but some wonderful<BR>things came out of BSD in to UNIX V, and Linux
followed.<BR>(Such as Socket abstraction layer.... remember the TLI
interface.. Yuk!)<BR><BR>Well, just a heads up here. If the Linux side
goes in the toilet,<BR>FreeBsd may be the only place to go for under
$1000.<BR><BR>Sorry for length, but if some didn't know some of the long
history, you<BR>now the highlights now...<BR><BR><BR>Dr D<BR><BR>At 02:20 PM
9/22/2004, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Just to register, I don't see the
problem with my RedHat 9.0, kernel
2.4.20.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><br>================================================<br>
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