--- Scott Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott Ullrich wrote: > > Gergo Szakal wrote: > > > >> FYI, the leader of m0n0wall, talking about > the feature of his OS > >> mentioned that DragonFlyBSD is not even > taken into consideration by > >> him to base his system on, 'cause it's > 'desktop oriented.' > > > > > > Actually that is partially untrue. Fred > Wright said this... > > > > Sorry, meant to show the URL: > http://m0n0.ch/wall/list-dev/showmsg.php?id=12/75 this guy needs to come up for air and join the 21st century. Most of his "ideas" are 10 years out of date. Without tearing him to shreds bit by bit, the commercial pull of using *nix for routing is that the economies of scale of using off-the-shelf PC hardware allow you to use so much horsepower for such a small amount of money (relative to dedicated hardware solutions), that the inefficiencies of the design become a positive. Rather than running microkernels on stripped down hardware, you can run full-featured systems and they perform as well or even better than dedicated hardware solutions, for 1/3 the cost. Once you go to specialized hardware, you've lost the key advantage of using the free OS in the first place, which is the rich feature set of the entire O/S. Everything he says is exactly backwards. And the whole fanless, diskless moving parts BS is just so stupid I can't stand it. Its like a bunch of college kids sitting around thinking of things to complain about. The guy is using crap hardware, stripped down os and has to put all the design effort into shrinking everything down, and for what? To avoid one failure every 2-3 years? Its just plain stupid, both fiscally and from an engineering standpoint. The guy is still living in the MFM, $2 fan days. I have 1000s of systems in the field with like zero failures. Build the system right and modern hardware doesn't fail that easily. He's also not looking for performance, so you can't expect him to get excited about MP. And why is he whining about driver support? On an appliance type platform you only need a few drivers to work well. Who cares if the mobo-wonder ethernet card is supported or not? DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com