Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Freminlins" <freminlins at gmail.com>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>; "Greg Barniskis"
<nalists at scls.lib.wi.us>; <danial_thom at yahoo.com>;
<jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu>; "Nick Withers" <nick at nickwithers.com>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?


> Ted,
>
> On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386
> > and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386.
>
>
>
> How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes: "Support
for
> 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel configuration option) has been
> removed. Users running this class of CPU should use FreeBSD 5.*X* or
> earlier."
>
>

Oops, forgot about that.  Use 5.x then.  The statement is that newer
versions of
FreeBSD are slower than older versions.  The point was that this isn't
relevant
to 90% of users for reasons I already cited.

Ted