Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:56:10 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081211155500.H1327@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <1229002806.2749.51.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> <20081207121431.5dcb37f9@gom.home> <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211122714.W4172@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211071914.278ae942@scorpio> <20081211133632.114d77c7.freebsd@edvax.de> <1229002806.2749.51.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>
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> - on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly > things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling > ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some > problems, but it's still impossible to burn a DVD for example. i don't have. i use only atapicam+cd driver, no acd. > - my mouse (a Logitec MX 300, USB) is still undetected at boot. Every > time I have to unplug/plug it after boot. Not a big deal I admit, but > boring. > - USB mass storage plug/unplug sometimes causes system panic. I know never got such thing, except when i forgot to unmount > that this is a well known bug that require some rearchitecting and that > a proper umount has always been the way to umount a drive, but, > honestly, you cannot seriously convince someone to use FreeBSD with > things like this ... > - Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... is > just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but > it's being resolved I think). Of course there are packages, but it's far > less friendly to use (and manage) than apt-get/dpkg. you may pkg_add from ftp repository
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