From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 02:53:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9C916A407 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3AA43D49 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:53:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f25so159079pyf for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:53:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=YKzzE/5SPg+AL21cUG+zxIjqTfnlY62vbhUCdSsq8g37ktlaIo8mS4Q1T2vhnx0g2tNzgSHkOoAIpZ/eTffD1s9SPU41tSXIq6TmAki9t9r3BvZpnpwkCaoFf6ZZNxGGTMmZpTS9XNMePg2gq2KTzt+NZ5W5iP6vn8vHbJvIYH8= Received: by 10.35.123.10 with SMTP id a10mr16687560pyn; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakshmi.susmita.org ( [59.92.57.16]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b52sm467372pyb.2006.10.17.19.53.23; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lakshmi.susmita.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B7A1423A9E4; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:23:18 +0530 (IST) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:23:18 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam To: FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20061018025318.GA24037@lakshmi.susmita.org> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-questions References: <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> <20061017135829.GA56234@gothmog.pc> <20061017153004.M88574@envieweb.net> <453512C8.4030900@schrodinger.com> <20061017224847.GA14477@lakshmi.susmita.org> <45356102.5030604@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45356102.5030604@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:53:34 -0000 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