From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 19:35:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A10D1065677 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 19:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-11.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-11.bluehost.com [69.89.18.111]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 182B38FC21 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 19:35:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 21908 invoked by uid 0); 7 Dec 2008 19:35:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2008 19:35:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=P8J+RYxIg4AD4e1Y1tdxkRf/acLZT29br7FJGd+7xze7PIzFcKyJ7n8G8wyofFeEHDXqMIH2N9lMS1NWCcI/nTvg+xa3ondY6YmSBnk8fysSiJ90hXhlaO19CYHRMZ4u; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L9PPm-0006YZ-9r for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:35:38 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:35:27 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:35:27 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081207193527.GA34325@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:35:39 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 08:29:32AM -0500, Jerry wrote: >=20 > IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, > it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed > a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization > to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which > are the future of computing. Please explain your use of the word "improve" in this context. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Mediocrity corrupts. Bureaucracy corrupts absolutely. --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk8JX8ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW2FwCgqwpNHFk6/+PI2PdzNauGn5vD 4hYAoMmkc3Clursb36CZX9Kwqvbtto6z =NmzJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--