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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:38:57 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   FW: Bugfixes, Support, etc. (was: RE: home pc use)
Message-ID:  <002501c1724e$d0b939e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C.
>Hornback
>Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:51 PM
>To: Toomas Aas; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Bugfixes, Support, etc. (was: RE: home pc use)
>
>	When a user finds a piece of hardware that does not work
>properly under
>FreeBSD, they have to make one of three choices.  1) Either live with the
>problems, 2) Research the problem, see if a fix has been created, and apply
>the fix or 3) Find another OS that supports your hardware better.  If I'm
>wrong, would someone please correct me.
>

option 4 is to scrap the hardware and replace it with known good hardware.
Computers are component systems.  There's no excuse for bitching about
something
like a NIC when replacing it is so cheap.  Even a motherboard beef is a
bit suspicious, Fry's loves to discount 'em.


Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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