Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:32:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly? Message-ID: <200003231832.KAA01282@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:18:09 %2B0100." <v04220809b5000f938273@[195.238.1.121]>
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> At 10:01 AM -0800 2000/3/23, Mike Smith wrote: > > > At last count, I think we've bought, borrowed and cajoled about twenty or > > so cards and sent them off to Cameron. I don't know what makes you think > > that we're _entirely_ stupid or greedy, especially since it's not like > > it's a secret or anything that we do this regularly. > > Here's another idea -- make a list of cards that you know of that > there are problems with, but that you guys can't find. Some of us > might happen to frequent computer shows or have some old hardware we > can scrounge up, and might be willing to give that to you (to give to > Cameron), or trade them for X future issues of the CD-ROM sets. Cameron has this list; either he or Bill Swingle ought to be able to put it somewhere fairly prominent. > I certainly don't mind spending $25 (or $50, or $100) to help > support the FreeBSD project, and I don't really care too much how I > spend that money. I'd prefer to spend it in a way that materially > helps the project, and it seems to me that helping to find and donate > bleeding-edge or ancient hardware for which we do not have good > support might be a better way to do that than to buy a subscription > of coasters. It's the donation of your time and eyes that _really_ counts here, and it would be _greatly_ appreciated. > A central database done with PHP3+MySQL of hardware you're > specifically looking for shouldn't be too hard to implement, should > it? Probably not; it's just a question of finding someone to develop and maintain such an animal. The BSD Driver Database goes a long way towards this, but I haven't seen much activity from M. Yancey lately. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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