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Date:      Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:41:08 +0300
From:      Vlad GALU <vladgalu@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quality of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <79722fad050721224147232de2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200507212006.j6LK68RO037136@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
References:  <20050721184455.5CEA8B86C@smtp.casidy.net> <200507212006.j6LK68RO037136@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>

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On 7/21/05, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> wrote:
> pcasidy@casidy.com writes:
>=20
> >My main problem, and to others after seeing the question from times to
> >times, is to know which is a good (not necessarly the best) hardware to
> >run FreeBSD on?
> >When I buy a new motherboard, which chipset to choose/avoid, which contr=
ollers
> >?
>=20
> Maybe some website like it is being done for notebooks (with
> Linux/FreeBSD support) would be in order. I'm thinking about something
> like http://www.linux-laptop.net/, only for FreeBSD and all kinds of
> machines, not just notebooks. (Or, if some collaboration would be ok,
> for *BSD in general, with people posting experience from NetBSD,
> OpenBSD, Dragonfly, even Darwin aswell. That way one could also compare
> support for hardware and see what problems the individual systems have.)
>=20
  There's this: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/

> Make it a Wiki, or something similar, where people can freely post
> experiences they have with their hardware. That could be whole machines
> (Dell model xxx desktop, IBM yyy laptop, HP zzz server) aswell as
> components (Asus blah motherboard, 3Com wlan card model foobar, etc.)
> and make the thing searchable, and perhaps allow one to post comments on
> entries (easy with a Wiki). That way people can quickly search & review
> hardware, awell as test suggested workarounds by the posters, without
> having to google for obscured mailing list entries, or problem reports.
>=20
> mkb.
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>=20


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