From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 21 23:52: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C978E37B401; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:51:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCDE43EE8; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfak@telus.net) Received: from silverdollar ([216.232.36.68]) by priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with SMTP id <20021222075157.EYYR10819.priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net@silverdollar>; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:51:57 -0700 Message-ID: <000c01c2a98e$fcd590a0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> From: "Peter Kieser" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: , References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:51:50 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I still find that FreeBSD has more _useful_ drivers then Linux, I have yet to find a device that isn't detected by FreeBSD, except some USB stuff such as my Logitech Webcam, and other "cheap" hardware that isn't of real use to anyone that is running FreeBSD in the first place, still it would be nice to see some of those drivers supported by FreeBSD, but this would lead to the bloat of the kernel. On the other hand, my favourite feature of FreeBSD is the Kernel Configuration, it has a nice GENERIC kernel, as Linux does not.. where all the hardware you would probably need is in the configuration file already, also even if you have everything in the kernel is really not all that bloated. -- Peter Kieser pfak@telus.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathon McKitrick" To: "Peter Kieser" Cc: ; Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 7:48 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: > | On another note, the only reason Linux is getting commerical interest is > | because people don't know about FreeBSD, they also don't know about the > | goods of the BSD license, if corporations were made aware of how the BSD > | license can be used, I gaurntee you we would have more people jumping on the > | band wagon for FreeBSD development and such. I just don't think BSD in > | general gets enough publicity. > > I recently read that the new Mandrake licensing plans for commercial will > allow modification of the source without requiring they be released. The > article remarks how much that is like the BSD license. > > | Also, on another note. There is really no BSD "desktop" distro, where > | everything is configured automatically for you, this would help for newbie > | users to pick FreeBSD over Linux. > > What about drivers? Does Linux still have the advantage they had before of > far more drivers? I haven't booted Linux in 3 years or so. ;-) > > jm > -- > My other computer is your Windows box. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message