Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:06:25 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: David Murphy <drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions forimproving newpcm performance?) Message-ID: <38D99841.87E51C7D@gorean.org> References: <200003191838.KAA40955@rah.star-gate.com> <000701bf91d5$4aebeb60$0304020a@NENYA> <001a01bf91c1$7f62a4b0$0304020a@NENYA> <200003191838.KAA40955@rah.star-gate.com> <20000319220453.A65973@ipass.net> <005d01bf9221$4660ac60$0304020a@NENYA> <20000320153429.A1373@ipass.net> <v04220803b4fcf1e15773@[195.238.1.121]> <20000321121048.E49550@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <v04220815b4fd1c95611c@[195.238.1.121]>
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Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> At 12:10 PM +0000 2000/3/21, David Murphy wrote:
>
> > The problem is, -RELEASE is pushed out like a new release of a
> > commercial OS, with big announcements, etc. etc., so people expect it
> > to have been subject to a similar level of prerelease beta testing.
>
> It has gotten *way* more testing than any Microsoft x.0 release,
> but it's still not ready for prime-time.
Don't be silly. MS (for all their flaws) has an extremely sophisticated
hardware compatability testing facility. In contrast freebsd supports
less hardware, has a much smaller installed base, and is free to say,
"no driver for you? tough bananas" to any hardware it doesn't want to
support.
Given the virtually non-existent adherence to standards in the PC
hardware biz, and given its goals, it's amazing that windows works at
all. For what it does it does extremely well.
Doug
--
"So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into
existence,
is that possible?" asked the student incredulously.
The master simply replied, "Mu."
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