Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:18:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility Message-ID: <200607201318.k6KDIOKH092991@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <1153394879.65957@origin.intron.ac>
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Intron wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > Getting action from vendors has been unsuccessful in the past - the > > Free OS community (Linux + *BSD) is too small for vendors to be > > concerned about. > > I cannot agree with you. Linux has achieved much more support from > hardware vendors than FreeBSD. Interestingly, when I looked for a new laptop last year, it turned out that the number of laptops that ran FreeBSD was greater than those that ran Linux. (I finally chose a Samsung X20-XVM 1600-V, which works perfectly fine for me except for the built-in winmodem [which I don't need anyway]. A Linux live CD didn't even boot on it.) > You may look in Linux source code. > In linux-2.6.x/drivers/, there are so many hardware drivers. Yeah, most of which are crap. :-) The raw number of drivers says _nothing_ about hardware vendors' support. > > I suspect the best solution is to publicise configurations that are > > known to work and what problems exist with other configurations. I tend to agree with Peter here. By the way, a very good resource for hardware support information is the search facility at Rambler: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ Best regards Oliver PS: I think this thread might be inappropriate for the -hackers list. How about moving it to either -hardware or -chat? (I watch them all, so either is fine with me.) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing." -- Dick Brandon
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