From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 14:48:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DFB1065670 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:48:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: from mail.utahbroadband.com (mail.utahbroadband.com [204.14.20.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884E58FC1D for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:48:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: (qmail 3578 invoked by uid 89); 4 Sep 2008 14:15:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.16?) (danallen46@airwired.net@66.29.174.6) by 0 with ESMTPA; 4 Sep 2008 14:15:14 -0000 Message-Id: <2FFE8E59-5CF1-4D65-BD6C-4ED8DE8FB14D@airwired.net> From: Dan Allen To: Oliver Peter In-Reply-To: <20080904094218.GB32453@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:48:46 -0600 References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <32833CD6-DE00-4FDB-A01A-B86B0A25B3E4@airwired.net> <20080904094218.GB32453@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:48:49 -0000 On 4 Sep 2008, at 3:42 AM, Oliver Peter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:58:45PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: >> >> On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >>> Your patches to add support for the i4965 and your Marvell 88E80xx >>> must have been stripped by the mailing list software. Can you >>> please >>> re-send them. >> >> I have not written patches, thus I did not send any patches. > > | > `--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm > > Btw. my philosophy is if you would like to use your favourite open > source > operating system - which I guess is FreeBSD - on your new hardware, > you > should spend additional 15 minutes when you make the decision what > hardware > you are going to buy and check the specs with the "Hardware Notes" at > http://www.freebsd.org/where.html. > > Complaining afterwards is easy but no one forces you to buy > unsupported > hardware. Point taken. A $500 Dell laptop, however, will be a popular machine and sooner or later should be supported. You know I thought you were being sarcastic, but then I was not sure... Dan