Thank you!

[Erik Norgaard]

Freebsd0101 at aol.com wrote:
> The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid
> attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version
> available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs because it doesnt
> support the necessary chipsets, AND, that freebsd "people" would 
> rather ridicule people that ask why than fix things.
> 
> So your claim that its a "heavy-duty server" platform is tainted by the 
> fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the 
> slower, 
> still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S
> that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform.

Dear Mr X.

You might be aware of DragonFlyBSD - it was forked from FBSD 4.x due to 
disagreements on the path of development for the 5.x branch developing 
SMP support among other things. The founder Mathew Dillon believed his 
way was the better and disagreements with the FBSD development team 
eventually led to the fork. In july 2004 v.1.0 was released.

I don't know about performance DFBSD vs FBSD5 vs FBSD4, and I don't know 
about hardware support, in fact I don't know much about DFBSD apart from 
the name.

But, if you like FBSD4, then DFBSD may be a viable alternative you 
should try out. However, the develpment team and user base is much 
smaller than that of FBSD, you need to be much more oriented at 
contributing to the project if you want progress to be made.

I suggest you give it a try, make your choice, be it FBSD4/5 or DFBSD.
Both DFBSD and FBSD as you know is delivered "AS IS" granting you only 
the right to be happy.

Cheers, Erik

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