surgemail-list netwinsite.com wrote:
> You may want to revise the info you provide on the
download page:
> http://www.netwinsite.com/cgi-bin
/keycgi.exe?cmd=download&product=surgemail
>
> In particular this blurb:
> "FREEBSD is not recommended as we consider the
operating system itself unstable when used with a
threaded/forking application. We have also noted an
unreasonable rate of incompatibility and outright bugs with
each new release of FreeBSD."
>
> I can't imagine this still holds true since recent
FreeBSD 6.x releases and especially not for the latest
FreeBSD 7.0 release: ht
tp://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html
>
> I'm sure you're already actively testing SurgeMAIL on
FreeBSD 7 in your labs, any results and findings so far?
>
I'm not sure, we have that warning because freebsd has had a
history of issues that caused problems for our customers,
so we feel it's only honest to warn customers in advance
that for some reason the chances of 'odd' problems is higher
on
freebsd. Even if the cause might really be simply our lack
of expertise on that platform and not a fault with the
platform itself it still translates to a real risk to
customers.
I will admit the number of issues has decreased and the
worst bugs in freebsd 4.x were indeed sorted out, and if we
can
resolve the last issue that's bugging me this week (a slow
memory leak that seems aparently to be coming from inside
the STDIO file handling in freebsd) then I might give in and
remove that warning entirely 
re: FreeBSD 7 -- Yes, it's looking good so far so I'm
hopeful it will not have any issues.
ChrisP.
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