Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Wed Mar 2 13:06:37 GMT 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony
> Atkielski
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:05 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> 
> > You can't be that confident that the other operating systems 
> will work
> > on the new hardware, either.
> 
> Mainstream hardware is usually well supported. Bleeding-edge
> technologies and obsolete hardware may not be. Mainstream commercial
> operating systems are probably a slightly better bet for obsolete
> hardware, since they are more likely to have encountered it previously
> and it's unusual for support to be explicitly removed.
> 

Now let's see, your last post was jus advocating buying everything
new, you said you bought your house, car, etc. all new...

and here your advocating obsolete hardware?

Is this a flip-flop?

Ted


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