Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:31:48 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <201010051531.48300.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP206334E008974E47D19DF37936D0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP206334E008974E47D19DF37936D0@phx.gbl>
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On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: > I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find > it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; > i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there > are others, precludes me from seriously thinking about installing > FreeBSD on a new laptop. The one PC that I have FreeBSD installed on is > connected via Ethernet cable to my LAN. Once that PC is replaced by > year's end with a more powerful, and wireless enabled unit, I am afraid > my experiment with FreeBSD will come to a close. At present it > certainly will not support the wireless card installed, and I am not > even sure if it will support all of the other hardware either. > > I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play > the "blame the manufacturers" whine. If that were factually correct, > then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for > hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. > > The bottom line is that FreeBSD, if it is to continue to be considered > a viable alternative operating system, must stay current in today's > market. Many posts that I have viewed on other forums seem to feel that > FreeBSD is sadly, whether do to bad choices such as those related to GPL > licenses, or failure to properly gage today's market trends, is slipping > into an abyss. So. What's the connection between freebsd.user@seibercom.net, carmel_ny@hotmail.com and gesbbb@yahoo.com, who all post through scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need to keep adding them one at a time? Jonathan
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