Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:48:34 +0100 From: FBSD UG <freebsd@rgbaz.eu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <BE800286-6AB6-4050-B987-01AB170ACC64@rgbaz.eu> In-Reply-To: <20081212215423.e1cfe454.dick@nagual.nl> References: <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211103742.21621a6d@gom.home> <20081211190951.GB845@comcast.net> <20081211113257.405a082c@gom.home> <20081211202023.GC845@comcast.net> <20081211134622.15c81ecd@gom.home> <20081212002813.GD32300@kokopelli.hydra> <20081211170011.777236f8@gom.home> <20081212015814.GB32982@kokopelli.hydra> <20081212120437.B3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212181258.GE36348@kokopelli.hydra> <ghuau9$juk$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081212203202.H4803@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212150228.520ad7f8@scorpio> <20081212212931.F5072@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212215423.e1cfe454.dick@nagual.nl>
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On 12 dec 2008, at 21:54, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:35:59 +0100 (CET) > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> They do this to hide their hardware faults that way - that's the true >> reason they do this. >> >> With new hardware produced every year it MUST be buggy and certainly >> there are thousands of hardware bugs. >> >> with "secret" drivers - they can easily hide them. AFAIK at least >> half of their driver code are to do workaround of their hardware >> bugs. > > Your talking about things without providing any evidence as usual. > It's just bollocks. NVidia has fabulous 3dgraphics cards and their > drivers work very very well. At least they do on solaris (32/64bit). > ...and Mac OSX and Linux and even Windows
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