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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:48:46 -0600
From:      Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>
To:        Oliver Peter <lists@peter.de.com>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content
Message-ID:  <2FFE8E59-5CF1-4D65-BD6C-4ED8DE8FB14D@airwired.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080904094218.GB32453@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de>
References:  <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <32833CD6-DE00-4FDB-A01A-B86B0A25B3E4@airwired.net> <20080904094218.GB32453@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de>

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On 4 Sep 2008, at 3:42 AM, Oliver Peter wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:58:45PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
>>
>> On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>> Your patches to add support for the i4965 and your Marvell 88E80xx
>>> must have been stripped by the mailing list software.  Can you  
>>> please
>>> re-send them.
>>
>> I have not written patches, thus I did not send any patches.
>
> |
> `-->  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
>
> Btw. my philosophy is if you would like to use your favourite open  
> source
> operating system - which I guess is FreeBSD - on your new hardware,  
> you
> should spend additional 15 minutes when you make the decision what  
> hardware
> you are going to buy and check the specs with the "Hardware Notes" at
> http://www.freebsd.org/where.html.
>
> Complaining afterwards is easy but no one forces you to buy  
> unsupported
> hardware.

Point taken.  A $500 Dell laptop, however, will be a popular machine  
and sooner or later should be supported.

You know I thought you were being sarcastic, but then I was not sure...

Dan




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