Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:35:24 -0600 From: "FreeBSD Sucks" <freebsdsucks@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD Trolls Suck Message-ID: <BAY21-F23D7B1C8E72B459F9EF622D3040@phx.gbl>
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So I wanted to apologize for sending such an angry email to this list, especially without giving more detail as was mentioned in the Milo Hyson email response. I had spent some time not being able to use FreeBSD as a stable workstation because of hardware compatibility issues on a Gateway machine. During that time I had been forced to run Windows or Linux as my desktop which sucks. I bought a new Dell E521 machine with a pretty vanilla hardware spec, and didn’t before I bought it check to see if FreeBSD would support it. This is my fault, but in my defense at this stage in the game you’d think FreeBSD would support things like USB, SATA drives, CD-ROMS, etc especially when I'm running 5.x and 6.x on my servers at work. When my machine came in I was very excited to start installing FreeBSD so I could once again have a real workstation. I tried installing 6.1 amd64 and it crashed before it even finished loading. It crashed because of USB issues. I unplugged the keyboard and then it hung on the SATA drive. I had problems with amd and non-amd branches ranging from 5.x and 6.x. So I burned a 7.0 install disc and it still crashed if the USB keyboard was plugged in, but at least didn’t hang on the SATA drive. Go to install and the CD-ROM is not recognized (though I’m sitting in sysinstall because I booted from disc). So I ended up FTP’ing 6.2-Beta2 and actually made it through the install. Yay! But now I can’t reboot my machine with the mouse or keyboard plugged into it, I can’t use my cd-rom, the sound doesn’t work and my mouse freezes all the time making this another desktop that I can’t run FreeBSD on. I’m not new to this OS and I have spent more time than I care to recall hacking through these issues, rewriting code and so on. And during the 4.x years and even 5.x I accepted this and moved on. But at this stage in the game I figured that the OS would be at a point where it could handle a vanilla spec’d Dell. I’m willing to blame Gateway, I’m willing to blame Dell, if it weren’t for the fact that I can install several versions of Linux and Windows with no issues. It's hard convincing people to switch from Windows or Linux when you can't even install the OS on a generic PC. I don’t want to run Windows, I don’t want to run Linux, I just wanted a freakin BSD box again. So yeah, I was really pissed and yes I acted like a troll. I apologize for that, but I still stand behind the fact that at this stage in the game, after all these years these types of fundamental issues should not be happening and while it’s lame to flame the mailing list because of my frustration its even more lame I don’t get to run FreeBSD. And what really sucks is finally getting new people to check out this OS I have been pushing only to find they can't use if if they want a keyboard, or a mouse or a cd-rom or a sound card installed. _________________________________________________________________ Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/
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