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To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
Subject: Re: The big hardware discussion (was: RE: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River)
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:17:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
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Scrive "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>:


> > BTW, I have been applying the following Rules Of Thumb:
> >
> > 1) do NOT buy the cheapest hardware out there (without good reason);
> > 2) do NOT (usually/normally) buy the most expensive hardware out
> there;
> > 3) gnothi sauton^W^W know your hardware & buy it at a trustworthy
> > shop/whatever.
>
> 	While these are wonderful tips, I have one that I follow that may be a
> bit easier to follow.  Basically, I look at what is on the list of
> supported hardware, and see what has been in circulation for a couple of
> years and compare that to the number of complaints/problems that people
> have using it under FreeBSD and use that to decide what I'm going to
> use.



<snip>



Essentially, I agree. I should have expressed my thought more explicitly.
However, a couple of years may be too conservative an approach.

As you may have noticed, I have been tracking several FreeBSD mailing lists --
BTW, an excellent source of advice and information for that matter. In my
previous post, I specifically recommended freebsd-hardware as a source of
wisdom^W advice :-)



Unfortunately, a number of people don't seem to be doing that. Well, in _this_
day and age:

1) people do not read (it's the culture of "images");
2) people do not *want* to read;
3) people become *upset* if they are told to read -- let alone RTFM.
:-))

The very recent email about CVS labelling (STABLE/BETA/RC; CURRENT vs. DEV[EL])
& cvsupfiles is instructive.

-- Salvo

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