Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:44:22 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>, pcasidy@casidy.com Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD Message-ID: <200507222144.30804@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <200507212006.j6LK68RO037136@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> References: <200507212006.j6LK68RO037136@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
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--nextPart10130128.AHysfYeH06 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2005 22:06 CEST schrieb Matthias Buelow: > pcasidy@casidy.com writes: > >My main problem, and to others after seeing the question from times to > >times, is to know which is a good (not necessarly the best) hardware to > >run FreeBSD on? > >When I buy a new motherboard, which chipset to choose/avoid, which > > controllers ? > > Maybe some website like it is being done for notebooks (with > Linux/FreeBSD support) would be in order. I'm thinking about something > like http://www.linux-laptop.net/, only for FreeBSD and all kinds of > machines, not just notebooks. (Or, if some collaboration would be ok, > for *BSD in general, with people posting experience from NetBSD, > OpenBSD, Dragonfly, even Darwin aswell. That way one could also compare > support for hardware and see what problems the individual systems have.) > > Make it a Wiki, or something similar, where people can freely post > experiences they have with their hardware. That could be whole machines > (Dell model xxx desktop, IBM yyy laptop, HP zzz server) aswell as > components (Asus blah motherboard, 3Com wlan card model foobar, etc.) > and make the thing searchable, and perhaps allow one to post comments on > entries (easy with a Wiki). That way people can quickly search & review > hardware, awell as test suggested workarounds by the posters, without > having to google for obscured mailing list entries, or problem reports. Well, there are numerous great FreeBSD sites out there which assist in such= =20 question, but I also like the idea of a purely hardware database site. If nobody want's to extend his site I'd offer to start a new one, I have=20 spare capacity in both, my servers (if they go online, in some days I=20 hope) and my leased line, so I'd be glad to contribute something. If anybody with wiki-experience wants to step in, you're welcome, I'm not=20 the big webmaster... Maybe Eric Anderson wants to contribute his bsdhardware.org domain, or we=20 could name it hardware.freebsd.org I'll be back when I have something online. Best regards, =2DHarry --nextPart10130128.AHysfYeH06 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC4UyeBylq0S4AzzwRAmrNAKCGWDUoWCozcOQihTlgoIz793IQFQCdELJw XtFSwhOUgfeMTRQRGWfBMDs= =2x5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart10130128.AHysfYeH06--
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