From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 19 18:44:35 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 18:44:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046EC37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-203.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.203]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA27249; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:03:34 -0500 (EST) Sender: root@smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net Message-ID: <3A401375.9483F773@bellatlantic.net> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:03:33 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Dennis , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001219120619.020cbac0@mail.etinc.com> <001401c069e7$8ed5c4f0$aa240018@cx443070b> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > pull off. Not that I don't appreciate the work of the people who write BSD > drivers, the people who put time and effort into BSD drivers are some of my > favorite people in the world, but it's terribly obvious that if a card or > device is not documented, that the company is going to provide a better > binary driver than what a BSD programmer could put together (okay, broad > generalization, but I'll stand by it in most cases). The closed source A gross misconcept. If someone has full set of docs that does not mean that he actually does read and understand them completely. Worse yet, the authors of commercial drivers often have a very vague idea of how their drivers should interact with the OS. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message