Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th Jul 2007 19:38 UTC, submitted by mark
The next major release of FreeBSD, version 7, is one of the most significant so far, with amount of new technologies and improvement largest since introduction of 5.0. Since constantly searching the mailing lists for important changes can be a bit tedious, this page lists some of the more interesting new things in one place.
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2005-11-29
I recall not so long ago when there was a discussion amongst linux devs that linux needed to catch up to OpenBSD as far as wifi drivers were concerned.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/12/1837238
Complaining about lack of hardware support is retarded. I have better hardware support for my digital camera (a few years old) in FreeBSD than I do with Windows (where kodak decided to not bother fixing their crappy drivers). So what? there are always going to be weird devices that are supported on one OS but not another.
My ubuntu system works better with my webcam than either my BSD or my windows system.
What's the moral of the story? Different things have different strengths & weaknesses, and you can't judge an OS based upon one or two devices that don't work on it. Most of these guys are coding this stuff for free, especially in the BSD world (where there is much less commercial backing than Linux), so let's not get all stupid about what our expectations are.
Maybe it's a rough ideology, but I like the OpenBSD policy of "shutup and hack"...
Don't like the hardware support? shutup and hack.
Want x_feature? shutup and hack
Don't like how something is implemented? shutup and hack
But good grief, let's end these petty squabblings.