Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:20 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20080321230020.GD67561@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <604255.75125.qm@web56806.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <20080320154812.GA26515@demeter.hydra> <604255.75125.qm@web56806.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:57:01AM -0700, mdh wrote: > It's been my experience that finding drivers for > hardware created for open source operating systems by > developers within the communities is quite easy, while > such community doesn't exist for windows and you are > 100% reliant on the vendor to supply working drivers. > If they supply crap drivers, go out of business and > stop providing any, etc, you are simply out of luck, > while with an open source model it is likely that > someone will have kept development going if the vendor > ever even did produce drivers for those systems. > There's very little in the way of modern hardware that > isn't supported by FreeBSD. The one time I ever ran > into unsupported hardware, a quick update of -STABLE > brought the necessary support in the driver. > > The fact is that political BS aside, for 90% of > workers, FreeBSD/KDE/openoffice/firefox will meet > their needs just as well as windows, and in fact if > you start with something like PC-BSD I think 90% is pessimistic, actually. It's probably closer to 98%. By the way, please don't top-post. The freebsd-questions list is one of those where I get to enjoy a "no top-posting" rule, and seeing unnecessary top-posting kinda harshes my mellow here. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts."
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