From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 20: 7:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7747037B990 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:07:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA85866; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:06:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D99841.87E51C7D@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:06:25 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-HEAD-0320 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: David Murphy , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions forimproving newpcm performance?) 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> <20000321121048.E49550@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message