From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 10 08:36:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18748 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 08:36:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA18743 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 08:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@PartsNow.com) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id BAA26042; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 01:36:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from nouvelle(192.168.100.9) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma026040; Fri, 10 Oct 97 01:35:59 -0700 Message-ID: <343E4B72.6C74@PartsNow.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 08:36:18 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@PartsNow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-E-KIT (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: Annelise Anderson , Robert Rusk , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs freeBSD References: <19971009200545.24922@lemis.com> <19971010102923.54565@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Drivers: Drivers are available for most standard hardware, right? > > OK. How about: > > As a result of the smaller user base, FreeBSD is less likely to have > drivers for brand-new boards than Linux. > How about... "Because of its production orientation, FreeBSD coders concentrate their efforts on new hardware which will be useful in high volume server operations rather than consumer-oriented boards, although there is a rapid expansion of the multimedia support in progress." State it positively, there's no reason to be ashamed of FreeBSD! -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo