From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 13 16:12:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00589 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00582 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA01815; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:12:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:12:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Wes Peters cc: Jeremy Domingue , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199807131915.NAA12199@obie.softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > NAME BRAND does not mean QUALITY. The number of users on the > FreeBSD lists over the years who have blamed various stupid > prolblems on FreeBSD because they spent mega-$$$ on Gateway, > Dell, Compaq, IBM, etc., systems is astonishing. I even hear quite a few NT users coming to the realization that a lot of hardware is just plain broken. These days Name Brand buying is only relevant at the component level, and even then a number of reputable manufacturers have some real duds to avoid in their product lines. > You won't find a discussion of SMP on the -current list, because SMP > isn't in the -current release. You'll have to ask questions of this > nature in the freebsd-current mailing list. The first two mentions of -current should be -stable I believe. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message