Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

[Frank J. Laszlo]

Tm4528 at aol.com wrote:

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>Your point might have some teeth if the "newer" version were better, but 
>the entire problem is that 5.x is much worse than 4.x, so there lies the
>issue. 4.10 is NOT supposed to be an "old" version. Its the production
>version. Because its readily admitted that 5.x is not yet ready for 
>prime time by those in the know. And its not properly suppored.
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Thats strange, http://www.freebsd.org says 5.3 is the Production release 
and 4.10 is the (legacy) production release
I guess they just dont teach you words like "legacy" in troll school.


>The truth is that you are  in awe of a "team" that has done a terrible job 
>of transitioning to a new version, who can't get the new version to perform 
>at close to the levels of the previous version after several years, and who 
>have time and time again failed to meet their promised performance targets. 
>They force their customer base to use the slothy thing, because modern 
>motherboards and comm cards dont work in 4.x. And you stand and cheer 
>them. Like a bunch of blind men cheering the one-eyed fool.
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If they've done such a bad job, why not contribute something other than 
useless rants on the lists?
And what customer base? I dont think the FreeBSD Foundation is trying to 
"sell" their product. and who
says all modern/new cards are supported in 4.x, I've used several new 
devices on 4.x without problems.
Why dont you just install windows and be happy with your OS that "just 
works".

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo