FreeBSD and hardware??

[Bob McConnell]

On Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:53:03PM +0000,
> twelcome at mobileemail.vodafonesa.co.za wrote:
>> Your assertion that "linux is both low end unix and low end windows
>> replacement" is factually wrong: As a high end unix I think it's
>> earned it's stripes, currently dominating the top 500 supercomputer
>> systems in the world, some no other unix has managed to accomplish
>> this time round. Notably, when compared to freebsd it offers support
>> for virtualisation where bsd is nowhere close to doing, just one
>> example of high end unix feature it provides. As a gui desktop,
>> I'm certain kde is a superior interface to windows in many ways.

> While I agree that, without some kind of supporting argument, the
> statement that Linux systems are "low end" Unix replacements are kind
of
> spurious sounding, I don't think that market share is really an
effective
> metric for determination of the quality of a replacement for a given
> class of OS.

I believe that he forgot to reference this article from ServerWatch.
This
shows more than a marginal increase in "market share". It suggests that
Sun and others have good reason to be nervous about their future
prospects,
and need to find new ways to make money.

<http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3787586>

On the other hand, both Unix and Linux have a long way to go before they
can match Microsoft's ease of use on the GUI. I believe the best way
to attack that problem is to find a new paradigm to replace the desktop,
which is not a great interface model to begin with.

Bob McConnell

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