From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 13:43:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B89B37B417 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0DLhQe05734; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:43:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <01d601c19c7b$55599810$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <0235a2158050d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> <00d201c19c0c$c513e300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <05e5c4129170d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:43:26 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian writes: > If anybody ever told you that FreeBSD was > more reliable or better with "unusual" hardware > we were sold a bill of goods. I didn't know that a USB CF reader is now considered "unusual" hardware. If it is unusual, why does FreeBSD support it at all? > The O/S is much more stable but hardware > drivers consistently lag Windows. But the main problem with Windows is device drivers! If FreeBSD drivers are even worse, this does not reflect favorably upon the operating system. > You just have the O/S's backwards :-( I can't afford to set up a separate machine and OS for every hardware device I wish to use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message