Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:40:25 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: danial_thom@yahoo.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? Message-ID: <20060602074025.GA65041@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEAPFEAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <447F069C.4000002@mac.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEAPFEAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:01:08PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger > >Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:24 AM > >To: danial_thom@yahoo.com > >Cc: questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? > > > [...] > > > but I'm > >generally of > >the opinion that FreeBSD works just fine, most of the time, on > >most hardware, > >without any specific tweaking or tuning to be entirely usable. > > > > It does not. In reality, current versions of FreeBSD work better > on current versions of hardware. FreeBSD has a terrible history > of breaking things that used to work on old hardware, then > when someone complains that something is broken, the developers > in effect tell them their old hardware is crappy junk and to buy new > hardware. > > Try running FreeBSD 6.X on a 80486 or Pentium system. FreeBSD 6.x works just fine on a Pentium system, as long as you have enough memory. > FreeBSD 4.11 > runs just fine on that hardware, if a bit slowly. But, I don't need > speed to control my garden sprinklers. > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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