From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 24 22:13:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08699 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:13:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08688 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id WAA09155; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:13:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:13:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Joey Garcia cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware and Stuff In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980724214816.0069a7f8@pacificnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Develop, implement and start the database. We will populate it. :) Put a www interface to it.. it would be really cool if you can get one of the coming out Linux port of Informix/Oracle to work too. You don't need anyone's permission to do this. FreeBSD is just as your OS as it is mine. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." Observation #1: The more security consultants get paid, the longer their sentences are On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Joey Garcia wrote: > > >Hey all! > >Well, in the newbies list there was a thread covering what people do with >their FreeBSD systems and on what kind of hardware that their currently >using with FreeBSD. Actually, that thread was going on awhile back but >recently it occured to me that we should all submit what kind of hardware >we use with FreeBSD. > >I mean, we should have a user data base listing the manufacturers and stuff >of the Hardware that we (as users) have found to work well with FreeBSD. >So say I have a Toshiba CDrom model number xxyzx that I find to work well >with FreeBSD, then I would submit that to the "Compatible CDrom Data Base". > Of course that can work for motherboards, mice, scanners, add-in cards, >video cards, printers, USB, or whatever might work with FreeBSD. > >I believe that this "database" would be a nice replacement, or enhancement, >for the current Hardware.txt for the FreeBSD releases. If I was someone >thinking of installing FreeBSD and I find that other users have the same >hardware that I do that have reported to work with FreeBSD, then t would >make my descion to run FreeBSD alot easier. Or, if I was someone that >already runs FreeBSD but decides that I wanted to upgrade my hardware, I >would easily turn to the Hardware database to see if anyone has good >reports on the Hardware I might want to upgrade to. > >Ya know what I mean? How does this idea sound? I just wanted to through >the idea out there and stuff. > >Take care guys, > >Joey > >PS: Another neat idea is to list what people use their FreeBSD machines >for, such as servers, or workstations, or a mega-machine designed to come >up with plans to takeover the world. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking, >Pinky?" ;) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message