[Info-vax] systemd boycott call was: Re: Why so much Unix envy?

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On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:14:59 PM UTC-4, William Pechter wrote:
> Yup... but they're pickier than Linux.
> Linux supports raid on my Lenovo D30 Marvell chipset.  So... I can dual
> boot Windows server 2012 with Linux... FreeBSD supports it on Intel
> chipset stuff but not on the Intel Xeon board with the Marvell chipset.

  mav@ (FreeBSD developer for this stuff) is pretty responsive to requests to add chipsets to the driver, as long as the user can provide some basic info (PCI IDs, etc.) and compile/test to make sure the proposed patches work.

> I've used FreeBSD from 1.0 up through 4.11 or so but my hardware was
> better supported under Linux unless it was server grade stuff.

That's pretty ancient. 4.x went unsupported over 7 years ago. Back then, the FreeBSD uniprocessor kernel would panic if you booted it on a SMP system. Things are vastly improved since those days.