freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted

[MikeM]

On 5/17/2003 at 4:17 PM Ruben de Groot wrote:
|On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:53:08AM -0400, MikeM typed:
|> On 5/16/2003 at 9:00 PM David Kelly wrote:
|> |On Friday 16 May 2003 07:57 pm, Aaron Peterson wrote:
|> |[...]
|> |>
|> |> 1. There is better hardware support for linux, and more features
|> |> because there are more developers.
|> |
|> |Better hardware support? I don't confuse "support of more hardware"
|> |with the claim of "better hardware support." So what if by some 
|> |chance FreeBSD doesn't support some oddball reverse-engineered 
|> |proprietary 1x CDROM hardware interface that Linux supports?
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|> 
|> In my experience, I had to switch my media server from FreeBSd to 
|> Linux due to the lack of full support for the 3Ware IDE RAID card 
|> in FreeBSD.
| 
|Really? I have a 3ware ATA RAID adapter which is working without any 
|problems. Did you have
|
|device twe
|
|in your kernel?
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Yes.

Please note that I make the difference between "able to run" and "fully
supported".  I was able to get the 3Ware controller to run on my FreeBSD
box.  But with 320GB of data at risk, I need the "fully suported" attribute
to be enabled.

Believe me, I'd much prefer to run the media server on FreeBSD.  And I'd
switch it over to FreeBSD in a heartbeat when/if the 3Ware controllers (and
associated utilities) are fully supported.