From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 5 05:23:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15741 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 05:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15735 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 05:23:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4006.ime.net [209.90.195.16]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id IAA45730; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:22:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990205081221.03c2ef10@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:22:48 -0500 To: & Peters , Terry Lambert From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: USB drivers Cc: ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990204230058.A4902@softweyr.com> References: <4.1.19990204133817.03dba040@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19990202201553.03c2ca30@genesis.ispace.com> <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com> <4.1.19990204133817.03dba040@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:00 AM 2/5/99 , & Peters wrote: > >Certainly not the latter anymore. Lamentably, Dayna is now a (very small) >part of Intel; that's why I no longer work there. Gag! Never really used Dayna products.. Most of the stuff here is Addtron or 3com. The Mac stuff is Apple Ether or Asante.. I don't really like machines that come with integrated Ethernet, you never know what you're gonna get. >As I pointed out, NetBSD 1.3.3 will reportedly netboot on the iMac, >but they can't seem to get enough information about OpenBoot to >boot it from the disk. I wonder if it has to do with that ghastly move away from SCSI to favor IDE.. That caused some problems with MKLinux back initially.. I think they've fixed it as of now. >Wanna bet? Motorola had/has it running on their StarMax series. They >have a full-time engineer support Linux on their embedded and server >PowerPC CPU boards now, too. Too bad we don't engender this >kind of support. Starmax's are nice machines, I did one up pretty well. Apple stretched licensing costs on them and they left the scene, really sucks, as it goes the board was made by Apple anyway. Does IBM sell a hacked up copy of AIX to run on them? Or is it just part of the install for the RS/6000 release? Linux has a lot of support unfortunately. Almost has become a name like Mickey Mouse, especially lately. Personally I think the Daemon is cooler than the Penguin (who looks stoned off his..) But that's just me. One way to get around it would be to have a linuxcc or something so you could on-the-fly build native Linux apps. I installed the Linux libs and the Linux devel, but it still didn't work out for most of the stuff I was trying to build. If you can't beat it, emulate it :) But all in all I'd say the support for FreeBSD has risen some, and I don't feel bad about conning all of those people into running it yet :) --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message