Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:23:18 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20061018025318.GA24037@lakshmi.susmita.org> In-Reply-To: <45356102.5030604@mac.com> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> <20061017135829.GA56234@gothmog.pc> <a969fbd10610170813s4c64bb3exd3689b626ef14556@mail.gmail.com> <20061017153004.M88574@envieweb.net> <453512C8.4030900@schrodinger.com> <20061017224847.GA14477@lakshmi.susmita.org> <45356102.5030604@mac.com>
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:02:26PM -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > I don't mean to be rude, but if hardware support is your only criteria, > why not just run Windows? If you don't care that its buggy or > ineffective, and you don't want to check that it is supported before you > buy it, you just want it to support everything, it would seem to me that > Microsoft's OS is the obvious choice.... NP, you are not rude at all. :-) I never said hardware support is the only criterion. I want hardware to be supported using UNIX semantics... I would love to port some important drivers to FreeBSD if that will help. regards, Girish -- Duty for duty's sake without hope for reward or fear of punishment
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