From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 21 23:00:23 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 8D6A9106576F for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:00:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-105.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-105.bluehost.com [69.89.18.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 570818FC30 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:00:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 16883 invoked by uid 0); 21 Mar 2008 23:00:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2008 23:00:20 -0000 Received: from c-67-165-217-249.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.165.217.249] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JcqDk-0004Hp-Bh for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:20 -0600 Received: by demeter.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:20 -0600 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:20 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: User Questions Message-ID: <20080321230020.GD67561@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: User Questions References: <20080320154812.GA26515@demeter.hydra> <604255.75125.qm@web56806.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <604255.75125.qm@web56806.mail.re3.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 67.165.217.249 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD... 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: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:00:23 -0000 On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:57:01AM -0700, mdh wrote: > It's been my experience that finding drivers for > hardware created for open source operating systems by > developers within the communities is quite easy, while > such community doesn't exist for windows and you are > 100% reliant on the vendor to supply working drivers. > If they supply crap drivers, go out of business and > stop providing any, etc, you are simply out of luck, > while with an open source model it is likely that > someone will have kept development going if the vendor > ever even did produce drivers for those systems. > There's very little in the way of modern hardware that > isn't supported by FreeBSD. The one time I ever ran > into unsupported hardware, a quick update of -STABLE > brought the necessary support in the driver. > > The fact is that political BS aside, for 90% of > workers, FreeBSD/KDE/openoffice/firefox will meet > their needs just as well as windows, and in fact if > you start with something like PC-BSD I think 90% is pessimistic, actually. It's probably closer to 98%. By the way, please don't top-post. The freebsd-questions list is one of those where I get to enjoy a "no top-posting" rule, and seeing unnecessary top-posting kinda harshes my mellow here. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts."