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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:51:59 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted.
Message-ID:  <20061025115159.6e6cbd5b@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610241236y353eb397u87c4bed8fbce2cf2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <80f4f2b20610241236y353eb397u87c4bed8fbce2cf2@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:36:41 -0400
"Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) If Toshiba were to provide open source drivers for it's
> "weirdities", would you purchase their machines?

Yes

> 
> 2) If "yes" to #1, would you join me in a snail-mail writing campaign
> to them to request they provide drivers for BSD and/or Linux -
> preferrably open source for one, or closed source for both, if it must
> remain closed for whatever reasons.

Sure

> 3) Off the topic of the main post, what are your top 3 vendors if your
> main consideration is the combination of (1) FreeBSD compatable
> hardware, and (2) Reliable/Honest/Intelligent and Customer Friendly
> tech support for hardware issues.

Depends what for... notebooks : had some mostly-OK experience with Tosh,
definitely good with IBM. Servers, HP have been good so far, and so have
hand-picked hardware...

B
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