From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 01:12:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCD216A403 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:12:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB8043D58 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:12:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so839458uge for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:12:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GElyaXYrfzXdf+ANf511Ue+8AlUAO8SCsqE/bDC90096DBj52C3yYIgcD4znGTyvlgJre5x8Ig4He3oR+x1e3Mt5SOvLN98MRIoHB4Bk1IlW4DQ6SF74LfZqSYI+EUxtL4UodHdLoyZMF8pqeKAkHlzpNfpqeTaRIf+K895j54A= Received: by 10.67.93.7 with SMTP id v7mr9102357ugl; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.18 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20610161812m4b0e444ck4f83130a3d9e5732@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:12:27 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45341E87.4080300@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> <80f4f2b20610161441h304ccfc4haa6a20f72a08e018@mail.gmail.com> <45341E87.4080300@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:12:29 -0000 > 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