Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:07:37 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1050268058.9a57e3@mired.org> To: Fabio Miranda Hamburger <fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apm Message-ID: <16019.14873.707059.462907@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304081454220.2474-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> References: <16019.14267.702346.871@guru.mired.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304081454220.2474-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>
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In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304081454220.2474-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>, Fabio Miranda Hamburger <fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> typed: > When there are hardware problems with FreeBSD that doesnt mean "freebsd is > hard to use", It means the Proyect is incompetent and is not organized. > > Take a stadistical information about questions list on freebsd.org and > most of the questions are hardware related problems. True. Most of them are from trying to run FreeBSD on flaky hardware. > FreeBSD doesnt see that as a 'weakness' cuz they are el1t3 at kernel > stuff. No, they just acknowledge that they don't have the manpower to support every offbrand piece of garbage that finds it's way to a computer flea market. That's life. If you want to run FreeBSD, you need to put up with buying hardware that it runs on. Windows doesn't have that problem because the makers of that off-brand garbage provide Windows drivers for it - for a while. I've got audio cards that work fine with FreeBSD that don't work with WinXP because the makers of the card quit supporting it. If you want to use cheap hardware, run Windows or do something constructive for FreeBSD. Just whining about it is a waste of time. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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