From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 21:38:03 2011 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 AECAD106566B for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.22.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 731708FC18 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25051 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jul 2011 21:38:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy8.bluehost.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 2011 21:38:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=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=cWPO06BXg8RbSaffeZRHHacUQGXm1e8vs02pX74zQVK2ckW5/BmoNt30lmhaMcAapGEQlRdWrT8Z+K5ybowzPyhTGkh+o6zZWqquUuGpsKABtbXwMYR/Jdqjh380+z3R; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qk0wS-0000zP-LG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:38:01 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:21:18 -0600 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:21:18 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110721212118.GB69737@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <24466_1311199850_4E27526A_24466_7987_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499C521866E@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <4e28160e.bVryeJCK1esNt615%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20110721141534.GC59455@guilt.hydra> <4E283B4E.4010303@cran.org.uk> <20110721170055.GD69370@guilt.hydra> <4E286D6D.9010201@cran.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E286D6D.9010201@cran.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore? 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: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:38:03 -0000 --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:18:21PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 21/07/2011 18:00, Chad Perrin wrote: > >I suspect those drivers are the drivers that have *survived*. I saw=20 > >hardware suddenly stop working because of driver issues just between=20 > >SP1 and SP2 of XP -- including, in one case, the hard drive that had=20 > >the OS on it. The system would start booting, then unload the driver=20 > >because it was not "compatible", thus losing contact with the very=20 > >hard drive from which it was loading the OS. Maybe I was just lucky,=20 > >though.=20 >=20 > Obviously Microsoft does introduce new driver technologies with new OS=20 > releases: there was a new video architecture in Vista, for example.=20 > However, they do seem rather good at supporting older technologies such= =20 > as TDI, and I suspect those drivers that fail aren't very well written. I have less faith in the correctness of MS Windows than you, evidently. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4omE4ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWu2wCcDORF67vomfnhj3OYMpDJZY3r bjkAoOVCGxAXZlcts9oeCQaMHYBo3QYr =r8sx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M--