From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 27 7:41:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D2614C58 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 07:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id KAA27334; Thu, 27 May 1999 10:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (V4.2) id xma026997; Thu, 27 May 99 10:40:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:40:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth Subject: Re: www.dell.com/linux In-reply-to: To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Adam Turoff Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > The OptiPlexes do have one quirk, they produce a stray ` every now and then. > > But FreeBSD runs great on Dells... I agree, and am THRILLED that you see the same behavior! I was going NUTS with this backtick. I think it's a problem with the keyboard interface, since even under Windows the keyboard becomes unresponsive sometimes (requiring me to pull the connector and reinsert). This is speculation, of course, since I can't tie the two symptoms together, but there ya go. I've got -STABLE running on a Dell Precision dual-Xeon machine now, and it screams. Buildworld takes 35 minutes, and that's w/o MFS, which should speed things up even more (? I've been told that, anyway). I've been running FreeBSD on Dells for 4 years now and have had no problems at all. SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message