Daemon's Advocate article

[.VWV.]

---- Original Message ----
From: "Mike Hoskins" <mike at adept.org>
To: <advocacy at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, 01 March, 2004 08:38
Subject: Re: Daemon's Advocate article

>On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Konrad Heuer wrote:
>> Only the very very few ones regretting that Linux has gone this way and
>> really liking open source will give FreeBSD a chance.
>
> i regret where linux has gone, at least distros like RH.  but you are
> correct, a lot of datacenters are filled with RH instead of *BSD.  some of
> it's application support, but with emulation as it is, a lot of it is just
> hype.  i love the simplicity (buildworld isn't hard) of FreeBSD and the
> control that it gives you.  it is stable, fast, etc...  but i guess we get
> back to the old "VHS vs. Betamax" debate.  people often choose inferior
> technology with their pocketbooks -- something very frustrating as an
> engineer.
>
> -m

What I miss, as an end user, is only a VMWare release making FreeBSD the
hosting o.s.

.VWV.