From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 12:57:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF8637B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:57:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B06D43ED8 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:57:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dacut@kanga.org) Received: from kanga.org ([151.201.19.185]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20021222205708.WTPA21770.out003.verizon.net@kanga.org> for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:57:08 -0600 Message-ID: <3E06273B.2040602@kanga.org> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:57:31 -0500 From: David Cuthbert Organization: Kanga International User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-au, en-nz, en-us, en- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <000c01c2a98e$fcd590a0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> In-Reply-To: <000c01c2a98e$fcd590a0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at out003.verizon.net from [151.201.19.185] at Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:57:07 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Kieser wrote: > I still find that FreeBSD has more _useful_ drivers then Linux, I have yet > to find a device that isn't detected by FreeBSD, except some USB stuff such > as my Logitech Webcam, and other "cheap" hardware that isn't of real use to > anyone that is running FreeBSD in the first place, still it would be nice to > see some of those drivers supported by FreeBSD, but this would lead to the > bloat of the kernel. Agreed that FreeBSD has more useful drivers. But we should still try to support the "cheap" hardware; after all, things like IDE drives could be considered "cheap." Also, why would it bloat the kernel (assuming it is loaded as a module)? Or were you referring to the kernel source? > On the other hand, my favourite feature of FreeBSD is the Kernel > Configuration, it has a nice GENERIC kernel I love this feature, both as a user and as a developer. Telling someone that they have to tweak their kernel in order to run program X is such a drag. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message