From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 14 23:13:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25663 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [209.81.9.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25654 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id XAA25245; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:12:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:12:24 -0700 From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <199807150612.XAA25245@monk.via.net> To: paul@originative.co.uk Subject: RE: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD Cc: X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd just like to say that as a longtime SUN user (Sun 2 workstations through current models have built in SCSI, video(sometimes) and ethernet on the motherboard), I've only encountered one system that had a defective onboard device. The ethernet on my SS1 died last year. That machine was purchased new in 1990 for 16K. It had *long* outlived its usefulness when the ethernet died. My experience is that onboard ethernet & scsi are just as reliable as add-on cards. As ethernet becomes ubiquitous in the pc world, most motherboards will incorporate it. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message