Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:26:31 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <45343F57.3010904@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610161811h24a94ecy48683c554bba78ec@mail.gmail.com> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> <80f4f2b20610161441h304ccfc4haa6a20f72a08e018@mail.gmail.com> <45341E87.4080300@u.washington.edu> <80f4f2b20610161811h24a94ecy48683c554bba78ec@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Stapleton wrote: >> 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. Ok, fair enough I suppose. > 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 Err... well, arguably a lot more of the Linux community may be individuals with a hacker mindset as opposed to a developer mindset. Just a thought. -Garrett
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