From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 20:07:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8230F16A44B for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:07:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@incubus.de) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B18E43E11 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:06:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@incubus.de) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (p54AAB49A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.170.180.154]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59680300CB; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:08:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (mkb@localhost.mkbuelow.net [127.0.0.1]) by drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6LK68RO037136; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:06:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mkb@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net) Message-Id: <200507212006.j6LK68RO037136@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> From: Matthias Buelow To: pcasidy@casidy.com In-Reply-To: Message from pcasidy@casidy.com of "Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:44:35 -0000." <20050721184455.5CEA8B86C@smtp.casidy.net> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.84; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:06:08 +0200 Sender: mkb@incubus.de Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:07:14 -0000 pcasidy@casidy.com writes: >My main problem, and to others after seeing the question from times to >times, is to know which is a good (not necessarly the best) hardware to >run FreeBSD on? >When I buy a new motherboard, which chipset to choose/avoid, which controllers >? Maybe some website like it is being done for notebooks (with Linux/FreeBSD support) would be in order. I'm thinking about something like http://www.linux-laptop.net/, only for FreeBSD and all kinds of machines, not just notebooks. (Or, if some collaboration would be ok, for *BSD in general, with people posting experience from NetBSD, OpenBSD, Dragonfly, even Darwin aswell. That way one could also compare support for hardware and see what problems the individual systems have.) Make it a Wiki, or something similar, where people can freely post experiences they have with their hardware. That could be whole machines (Dell model xxx desktop, IBM yyy laptop, HP zzz server) aswell as components (Asus blah motherboard, 3Com wlan card model foobar, etc.) and make the thing searchable, and perhaps allow one to post comments on entries (easy with a Wiki). That way people can quickly search & review hardware, awell as test suggested workarounds by the posters, without having to google for obscured mailing list entries, or problem reports. mkb.