From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 05:28:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7A416A4C0 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.kjkoster.org (213-84-106-195.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.106.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A8643FCB for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kjkoster@kjkoster.org) Received: from kjkoster.org (LikeEver [192.168.0.1]) by www.kjkoster.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7VCSkW1010236 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:28:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kjkoster@kjkoster.org) Sender: kjkoster@www.kjkoster.org Message-ID: <3F51E9FE.99723515@kjkoster.org> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:28:46 +0200 From: Kees Jan Koster X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Hackers mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Just a quick thank you... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:28:49 -0000 Dear All, I'd like to thank you guys for the great work. FreeBSD is getting better with every release. A few weeks ago I replaced my motherboard with something marginally faster (from a 650MHz Athlon to a 1800+ one, a really minor upgrade). FreeBSD accepted the change without even blinking its virtual eyes. Windows took about ten reboots to get back into some form of working state. Some Windows games still can't switch video mode, even though I never changed the video card. In particular, Windows still fails to detect my on-board sound card, which FreeBSD picked up without so much as a kernel recompile. There used to be a time when this was the other way around. The next step for Windows would to be able to deal with new hardware without doing an installation from scratch. The next step for FreeBSD would to be able to replace the motherboard without shutting down the machine. :-) Yours, Kees Jan --------------------------------------------------------------- Kees Jan Koster e-mail: kjkoster "at" kjkoster.org www: http://www.kjkoster.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Life is uncertain; eat dessert first.