Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:31:00 +0000 From: "Kip Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i give up Message-ID: <3c1674c90811290031p932f3ddx9ba2d947c8e5fc26@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4930DD20.1020509@math.missouri.edu> References: <20081128234155.0221e263@serene.no-ip.org> <4930D7CE.4080909@psg.com> <4930DD20.1020509@math.missouri.edu>
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: >> >> what a tragic story. and zero technical info, like even what your >> controller is. best of luck in penguin land. bye! > > I have had experiences where modern hardware is such that Linux will work, > and FreeBSD won't. So I find myself forced to use Linux. But I find the > experience so frustrating, that as soon as FreeBSD catches up to that > hardware - and this always seems to happen - I immediately go back to > FreeBSD. Twice I've had the opposite experience, once with a server and once with my shuttle desktop. I bought them to do Linux work but none of the half dozen linux distros I tried supported the SATA controller. However ... FreeBSD installed just fine. Your mileage will vary. Cheers, Kip
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