Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to?

Re:Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to? by cperciva on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:32PM (#510733)

I use FreeBSD all the time -- so I selected "I use whatever OS I need to do the job".

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Re:Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to? by yan on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:35PM (#510740)

Totally an aside, but: what fs do you use? I want to use pawel's zfs implementation, but am scared due to people complaining of issues on the mailing lists.

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Re:Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to? by cperciva on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:38PM (#510744)

I use UFS2. My understanding is that ZFS is perfectly stable in -current and works fine on 7.1-release on 64-bit systems; but since most of the advantages of ZFS only apply when you have multiple disks, I didn't see any reason to change.

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Re:Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to? by yan on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:41PM (#510755)

I'm currently using it in a home file server that has 5 identical drives that are members of a zfs pool. It works fine, but just wanted some reassurance. Thanks.

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Re:Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to? by gstar on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:38PM (#510743)

Sorry about that, I considered adding the BSDs, but I didn't really think anyone would seriously use it on the desktop.

I'll add it to the poll options.

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Re:Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to? by cperciva on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:40PM (#510752)

I didn't really think anyone would seriously use it on the desktop.

Why not? All of the major desktop environments run on FreeBSD just as well as they do on linux.

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