Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:28:55 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <201010051628.55970.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimBV4HM=c56aLct1owK1xSj=P4C_itWSo4e-6Km@mail.gmail.com> References: <BLU0-SMTP206334E008974E47D19DF37936D0@phx.gbl> <201010051531.48300.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <AANLkTimBV4HM=c56aLct1owK1xSj=P4C_itWSo4e-6Km@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: > > > I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find > > > it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; > > > i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. [snip] > > > I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play > > > the "blame the manufacturers" whine. If that were factually correct, > > > then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for > > > hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. > > > > So. What's the connection between freebsd.user@seibercom.net, > > carmel_ny@hotmail.com and gesbbb@yahoo.com, who all post through > > scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why > > FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? > > > > And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any > > easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need > > to keep adding them one at a time? > > > Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for > CUDA), but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and > netbooks. If I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't > really see the point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to > use FreeBSD on my laptops/netbooks but these problems always made me fall > back to Linux... I still use FreeBSD as the only OS on my desktop computers > though... I'm not disputing that there are things not supported on/by FreeBSD that it would be nice to see working. I'm just getting bored with hearing very similar whinges, posted from multiple email addresses but apparently all from the same person: look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209946.html and then http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209966.html Both messages are sent from carmel_ny at hotmail.com. They have the identical ascii-art flag in the sigblock. One is signed Carmel (carmel at hotmail.com), the other Jerry (gesbbb at yahoo.com).
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