Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:51:59 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted. Message-ID: <20061025115159.6e6cbd5b@localhost> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610241236y353eb397u87c4bed8fbce2cf2@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20610241236y353eb397u87c4bed8fbce2cf2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:36:41 -0400
"Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) If Toshiba were to provide open source drivers for it's
> "weirdities", would you purchase their machines?
Yes
>
> 2) If "yes" to #1, would you join me in a snail-mail writing campaign
> to them to request they provide drivers for BSD and/or Linux -
> preferrably open source for one, or closed source for both, if it must
> remain closed for whatever reasons.
Sure
> 3) Off the topic of the main post, what are your top 3 vendors if your
> main consideration is the combination of (1) FreeBSD compatable
> hardware, and (2) Reliable/Honest/Intelligent and Customer Friendly
> tech support for hardware issues.
Depends what for... notebooks : had some mostly-OK experience with Tosh,
definitely good with IBM. Servers, HP have been good so far, and so have
hand-picked hardware...
B
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