From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Dec 21 23:54:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B91737B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from priv-edtnes62.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DA243EDC for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfak@telus.net) Received: from silverdollar ([216.232.36.68]) by priv-edtnes62.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with SMTP id <20021222075417.FNLE1598.priv-edtnes62.telusplanet.net@silverdollar> for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:54:17 -0700 Message-ID: <001901c2a98f$50189140$c601a8c0@silverdollar> From: "Peter Kieser" To: Subject: Fw: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:54:10 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Woops, this and the other thread didn't make it to the list, typo on my part. -- Peter Kieser pfak@telus.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kieser" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: ; Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 11:51 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects > I still find that FreeBSD has more _useful_ drivers then Linux, I have yet > to find a device that isn't detected by FreeBSD, except some USB stuff such > as my Logitech Webcam, and other "cheap" hardware that isn't of real use to > anyone that is running FreeBSD in the first place, still it would be nice to > see some of those drivers supported by FreeBSD, but this would lead to the > bloat of the kernel. > > On the other hand, my favourite feature of FreeBSD is the Kernel > Configuration, it has a nice GENERIC kernel, as Linux does not.. where all > the hardware you would probably need is in the configuration file already, > also even if you have everything in the kernel is really not all that > bloated. > > -- > Peter Kieser > pfak@telus.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathon McKitrick" > To: "Peter Kieser" > Cc: ; > Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 7:48 PM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects > > > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: > > | On another note, the only reason Linux is getting commerical interest is > > | because people don't know about FreeBSD, they also don't know about the > > | goods of the BSD license, if corporations were made aware of how the BSD > > | license can be used, I gaurntee you we would have more people jumping on > the > > | band wagon for FreeBSD development and such. I just don't think BSD in > > | general gets enough publicity. > > > > I recently read that the new Mandrake licensing plans for commercial will > > allow modification of the source without requiring they be released. The > > article remarks how much that is like the BSD license. > > > > | Also, on another note. There is really no BSD "desktop" distro, where > > | everything is configured automatically for you, this would help for > newbie > > | users to pick FreeBSD over Linux. > > > > What about drivers? Does Linux still have the advantage they had before > of > > far more drivers? I haven't booted Linux in 3 years or so. ;-) > > > > jm > > -- > > My other computer is your Windows box. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message