From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 16 16:55:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.phx.gblx.net (smtp10.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D0E37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp10.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA20398; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:55:14 -0700 Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp10.phx.gblx.net, id smtpdeCR5Ma; Wed May 16 16:55:11 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA27847; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:56:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200105162356.QAA27847@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: I'm leaving To: tech_info@threespace.com (Technical Information) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 23:56:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), advocacy@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Advocacy) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010516083152.01792158@mail.threespace.com> from "Technical Information" at May 16, 2001 08:40:44 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I thought this sort of technology was already in XFree86. Thought it was > how they managed to create one big SVGA driver that works with about 80% of > the cards that they support. No, or XFree86 wouldn't need all the BS modelines and crap, and could be easily configured for high resolution. > What impresses me about Red Hat Linux is how good the hardware detection > has gotten in general, not just with video. I recently upgraded a > motherboard/CPU, video card, and CD-ROM (from SCSI to IDE), while keeping > the same hard drive. When I booted Red Hat, it came up and informed me > that I had a new video card and CD-ROM and then made the appropriate > adjustments to the fstab and XF86Config files. I didn't have to "do" a > thing. It just worked. Yes. This is a good thing. > I know that for a more advanced user, graphical installation and > administration utilities can often get in the way more than help, > especially when they operate in a strictly linear "answer this series of > questions in order" fashion. But I'd rather have a graphical utility that > allows me to do something in a slightly cumbersome method than have nothing > at all, which is usually where I am now on Linux/FreeBSD systems. Yes. Most people fall into the "I don't give a damn how it works, just do what I wanted" camp. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message