----- Original Message ----- From: "Freminlins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; "Greg Barniskis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Nick Withers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"