Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:14:36 -0700 From: "Jin Guojun [VFFS]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility Message-ID: <44BFC80C.8040000@lbl.gov> In-Reply-To: <200607201318.k6KDIOKH092991@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200607201318.k6KDIOKH092991@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
>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.)
>
>
Really depends on what environment you are in and things
are case by case.
Not long ago, I post some question to hardware list about
booting FreeBSD on a Sony PCG-6J2L laptop, which cannot be
even found/supported on Sony web site :-( , for my friend.
I got no answer back.
A couple of issues:
(1) all FreeBSD releases can be installed on a USB drive, but
none of these release can boot after FreeBSD installed.
(2) I build a live FreeBSD CD (Freesbie), which can boot,
but cannot configure the NIC (Yukon-FE).
So, I tried different Linux. RedHat is the worst one to forget.
Debian is ok and Suse Linux 10.1 seems to be the best for this
laptop. Suse Linux detected the NIC as sky0.
> > 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.
>
>
FreeBSD has its merit and other OSs have their merits.
If we want to make FreeBSD more stronger, we need to learn
others advantages, alert all disadvantages, not just blame them.
Blaming makes things going backward, and learning makes
history moving forward.
I agree with originator's idea although it is not easy because
free OS community is small.
-Jin
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