Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:12:27 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <80f4f2b20610161812m4b0e444ck4f83130a3d9e5732@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45341E87.4080300@u.washington.edu> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> <80f4f2b20610161441h304ccfc4haa6a20f72a08e018@mail.gmail.com> <45341E87.4080300@u.washington.edu>
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> No offense to those who swear by it (and I know this is a bit > off-topic), but genkernel is shit. It's kernel compiling for people who > are afraid of forgetting make commands.. > -Garrett I agree, but since I couldn't get a decent custom kernel booting, that was my only option. And speaking of sht, in regards to Damiens last comment - I honestly don't believe that it's just binary drivers that keeps Linux with better driver support - there are more OSS drivers there too. The reason? It's fecal - linux only; cares that it works, they care much less about documentation and quality. It's enticing to the a lot of the developers and made the community larger - "Hey I can spend my time coding how I want instead of following standards and wasting time with documentation!!". Don't get me wrong, I think binary drivers due play an issue, by my BSD desktop had binary drivers in it too, they just weren't supplied with the BSD images (I don't think they would have been stored with linux images either). anyway, just another two cents of my own. -Jim Stapleton
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