Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:33:05 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Anthony Rubin" <arubin@concentric.net>, "R. D. Davis" <rdd@smart.net>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." <larry@pkunk.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...) Message-ID: <002101bff424$6d0c0ed0$47430ace@hacker> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007221342490.26676-100000@smarty.smart.net> <001701bff412$b3b697e0$b8850140@r2d2>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Rubin" <arubin@concentric.net> To: "R. D. Davis" <rdd@smart.net>; "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." <larry@pkunk.net>; "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...) > What is wrong with you people? FreeBSD is a free operating system developed > by *volunteers*. A few of you talk about it like these volunteers owe you > something. I'm sure the mentality of the FreeBSD development team is not > that they want everyone to upgrade every time a new version comes out, but > someone has to do the work to keep the drivers (amoung other things) up to > date. The best thing any of you could do is help in some way instead of > complaining. > > Anthony Rubin > Hoffman Estates, IL > arubin@concentric.net > > I agree with this wholeheartedly....and I still have to ask the question: If you have a version of FBSD that supports your hardware, why are you upgrading to a version that doesn't? Josh > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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