On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:35:16PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: > Gayn Winters wrote: > > > > I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD team aiming at only the latest > hardware, all I use is brand new server equipment. > I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development > could be hampered by the core guys trying to make stuff work on old > hardware, in fact if it was a fact that a lot more performance and > features could be in 6.x if they dropped support for everything below > 1ghz for x86 I would be happy, I got a few older machines but they could > go onto NetBSD since its a very similar OS as it has the same rc script > system which FreeBSD imported from NetBSD to start with.
I would have to disagree strongly with this. I'v got about 50 PII machines deployed running FreeBSD 4/5, and I'd really hate to migrate to another BSD, just because ome one wanted to try to optimize for the latest gee whiz hardware. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
