From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 14:29:46 2010 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 355251065670 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:29:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j.mckeown@ru.ac.za) Received: from a.mail.ru.ac.za (a.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECE58FC13 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:29:43 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=ru-msa; d=ru.ac.za; h=Received:From:Organization:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:X-Face:MIME-Version:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Virus-Scanned:X-Authenticated-User; b=To8MezXj4MDNtKyu9IOPssdSu8dMDsGACYRd7vn1kYsRepIVNv8lcOvGPr4PIdKab6z3IKvnTdkkKmLLCEEpP21j36LKCdRE50Fxfae5RvChbE91njJPt5pMBGhacKoV; Received: from vorkosigan.ru.ac.za ([2001:4200:1010:1058:219:d1ff:fe9f:a932]:54897) by a.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1P38WT-000Fqr-4m for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:29:41 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Rhodes University To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:28:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <201010051531.48300.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: X-Face: $@VrUx^RHy/}yu]jKf/<4T%/d|F+$j-Ol2"2J$q+%OK1]&/G_S9(=?iso-8859-1?q?HkaQ*=60!=3FYOK=3FY!=27M=60C=0A=09aP=5C9nVPF8Q=7DCilHH8l?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=3B=7E!42HK6=273lg4J=7Daz?=@1Dqqh:J]M^"YPn*2IWrZON$1+G?oX3@ =?iso-8859-1?q?k=230=0A=0954XDRg=3DYn=5FF-etwot4U=24b?=dTS{i Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: a.mail.ru.ac.za (2001:4200:1010::25:1) X-Authenticated-User: s0900137 from vorkosigan.ru.ac.za (2001:4200:1010:1058:219:d1ff:fe9f:a932) using auth_plaintext Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook 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: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:29:46 -0000 On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: > > > I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find > > > it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; > > > i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. [snip] > > > I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play > > > the "blame the manufacturers" whine. If that were factually correct, > > > then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for > > > hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. > > > > So. What's the connection between freebsd.user@seibercom.net, > > carmel_ny@hotmail.com and gesbbb@yahoo.com, who all post through > > scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why > > FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? > > > > And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any > > easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need > > to keep adding them one at a time? > > > Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for > CUDA), but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and > netbooks. If I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't > really see the point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to > use FreeBSD on my laptops/netbooks but these problems always made me fall > back to Linux... I still use FreeBSD as the only OS on my desktop computers > though... I'm not disputing that there are things not supported on/by FreeBSD that it would be nice to see working. I'm just getting bored with hearing very similar whinges, posted from multiple email addresses but apparently all from the same person: look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209946.html and then http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209966.html Both messages are sent from carmel_ny at hotmail.com. They have the identical ascii-art flag in the sigblock. One is signed Carmel (carmel at hotmail.com), the other Jerry (gesbbb at yahoo.com).