From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 05:51:45 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 CD2E116A488 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:51:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vladgalu@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E17643D64 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:51:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vladgalu@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so116833nzo for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:51:10 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kn57MIqPf4yyHy+RULN185itahwBKig02hcPsUsLCtvzi/XIqBh6U8cZNbm9xFbo5upaIaYFGbvq4uFiSs/CfHADTzN3dI/kKZYgD2MH258g4d4RE3BipUOdDbR2ObtXYvSN39rzr2l4Pj26wIyVIYczeDipBZqIzEzbSBNR0jA= Received: by 10.36.129.16 with SMTP id b16mr1275365nzd; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.86.4 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <79722fad050721224147232de2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:41:08 +0300 From: Vlad GALU To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200507212006.j6LK68RO037136@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050721184455.5CEA8B86C@smtp.casidy.net> <200507212006.j6LK68RO037136@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Vlad GALU List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:51:46 -0000 On 7/21/05, Matthias Buelow wrote: > pcasidy@casidy.com writes: >=20 > >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 contr= ollers > >? >=20 > 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.) >=20 There's this: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ > 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. >=20 > mkb. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 --=20 If it's there, and you can see it, it's real. If it's not there, and you can see it, it's virtual. If it's there, and you can't see it, it's transparent. If it's not there, and you can't see it, you erased it.