From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 19:49:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455B51065676 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 19:49:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972FB8FC1E for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 19:49:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 X-RZG-AUTH: :LWgJfE6Id/4Sm/WkdV0gEbKL+/p/UjmosA/b4BPf1Ida/rA7aGe02Q== Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([77.20.0.69]) by post.strato.de (klopstock mo18) (RZmta 17.20) with ESMTP id 505410kB7IdjIW for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:37:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651CE127BCA for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22309-01 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id E7EB8127BE2; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:17 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:49:06 -0000 On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed > 3D. Who is "most freebsd users"? I agree that there are more important things to worry about than nvidia/amd64 support, but: if you want to buy a computer these days and want to use it as a desktop/workstation with our favourite operating system, you have a serious problem to find a graphics card that is both useable and buyable. > so simply don't use nvidia/ati Ok, what else then? Uwe