Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:13:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware and Stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980724221154.8687A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980724214816.0069a7f8@pacificnet.net>
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Develop, implement and start the database. We will populate it. :)
Put a www interface to it.. it would be really cool if you can get
one of the coming out Linux port of Informix/Oracle to work too.
You don't need anyone's permission to do this. FreeBSD is just as
your OS as it is mine.
-- Yan
Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark."
Observation #1: The more security consultants get paid, the longer their
sentences are
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Joey Garcia wrote:
>
>
>Hey all!
>
>Well, in the newbies list there was a thread covering what people do with
>their FreeBSD systems and on what kind of hardware that their currently
>using with FreeBSD. Actually, that thread was going on awhile back but
>recently it occured to me that we should all submit what kind of hardware
>we use with FreeBSD.
>
>I mean, we should have a user data base listing the manufacturers and stuff
>of the Hardware that we (as users) have found to work well with FreeBSD.
>So say I have a Toshiba CDrom model number xxyzx that I find to work well
>with FreeBSD, then I would submit that to the "Compatible CDrom Data Base".
> Of course that can work for motherboards, mice, scanners, add-in cards,
>video cards, printers, USB, or whatever might work with FreeBSD.
>
>I believe that this "database" would be a nice replacement, or enhancement,
>for the current Hardware.txt for the FreeBSD releases. If I was someone
>thinking of installing FreeBSD and I find that other users have the same
>hardware that I do that have reported to work with FreeBSD, then t would
>make my descion to run FreeBSD alot easier. Or, if I was someone that
>already runs FreeBSD but decides that I wanted to upgrade my hardware, I
>would easily turn to the Hardware database to see if anyone has good
>reports on the Hardware I might want to upgrade to.
>
>Ya know what I mean? How does this idea sound? I just wanted to through
>the idea out there and stuff.
>
>Take care guys,
>
>Joey
>
>PS: Another neat idea is to list what people use their FreeBSD machines
>for, such as servers, or workstations, or a mega-machine designed to come
>up with plans to takeover the world. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking,
>Pinky?" ;)
>
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