Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:48:57 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports system quality Message-ID: <CADLo839BV03O=pR93pQ2sHU7%2B-vJrOVK_3veXP-9LgD6ZfeJRw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110830091358.GA83706@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20110830091358.GA83706@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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On 30 Aug 2011 10:15, "Michel Talon" <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote: > > Chad Perrin wrote: > > >Of course, your goal is apparently to > >convince me that yours are the "correct" priorities. > > Indeed i think having the correct priorities is essential when choosing > between different options, and i am sincerely convinced that my choices > are shared by a lot more people than yours. For example, having "less > bloat" in the system doesn't even appear in the radar of most people. > I value much more that hardware is supported, that installation and > upgrade are easy, troubleless. Like everyone else i am irritated by > some developments in the Ubuntu experience, for example the parallel > booting stuff, which doesn't work well (but that people would like to > imitate in FreeBSD), but all those problems remain minor. A few days ago > i went to a store to buy a new laptop, i went with two CDROMs, an Ubuntu > one and a FreeBSD one. Guess which of the two supported the network > controllers in the laptops i tried? > Did you deliberately pick the laptops with strange network controllers, or just use an old version of FreeBSD? Which version did you use? Chris
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