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Originally Posted by turbo_pascale
Note also, that as much as everybody loves Apple's OS (I like the look of it a lot too), it's prime reason for stability is the fact that Apple knows, and tests all hardware that is going to run on their OS, and reliance on 3rd party drivers is minimal and controlled.
Imagine running Windows using ONLY WQHL approved drivers!
Why do you think that they don't make it "PC" compatible - not because of the hardware sales! It's because of the nightmare it would cause with drivers and system stability.
Turbo
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it's not just the limited amount of hardware support. it's more about the bsd underpinnings. I am a network/system engineer for an isp - our freebsd servers never crash. and I do literally mean we have never had one crash. uptimes are as long as the machine has been in service, which for a few servers is over 720 days at the moment.
Our windows servers, running on IBM X series servers, running win 2003 server with only approved drivers - need to be rebooted every few weeks. In addition every week we need to restart a app or service or some little glitch. The funny thing is the bsd servers are actually busier boxes.