Mark Shuttleworth is trying to entice OpenSUSE developers to join Ubuntu. "Novell's decision to go to great lengths to circumvent the patent framework clearly articulated in the GPL has sent shockwaves through the community. If you are an OpenSUSE developer who is concerned about the long term consequences of this pact, you may be interested in some of the events happening next week as part of the Ubuntu Open Week."
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I think you need to step back and look at the stupid thing you posted. How many platforms does FreeBSD support? How many does OpenBSD?
You just declared that FreeBSD supports more hardware than OpenBSD - how well does it run on a Zaurus? How's it's SD support going? How's that Alpha port doing?
OpenBSD supports different hardware from FreeBSD, not less. OpenBSD's drivers run on multiple hardware platforms, a feat unachievable through Project Evil.
Running FreeBSD on a macppc machine makes it look like crap, nothing works. OpenBSD runs rather well, strange that.
FreeBSD supports more i386-based hardware components with i386-specific solutions, it has superior SMP support, it even has a larger developer base.
Wireless is not the exception to the rule for OpenBSD either, look at the hardware RAID support of OpenBSD and compare it to FreeBSD's, or the crypto support. In several areas of development OpenBSD leads FreeBSD, and vice versa - William Paul (wpaul) of FreeBSD has been quite good at getting new nic drivers, OpenBSD generally lags behind FreeBSD there because of it.
Don't go saying stupid shit that is entirely bogus, it just makes you look like a fool.
OpenBSD chooses not to try running binary gunk in it's kernel space, that's important to the security folks, and that's what matters. OpenBSD is not developed for you, it's not developed for me, it's developed for the developers - they want security, not popularity.
And regarding your Linux bit, Linux support is not better or worse, it is different. There are more drivers out there which do not always work well together, so depending on what you've got it can be much better for your needs, in other situations you'll be lucky to get a driver that supports your wireless card without requiring your entire system to be updated to a new version.
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"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces."But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
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2006-08-22
Linux hardware support is really better, but not that MUCH.
And openBSD, yes, support more wireless chipsets, if you only speak of free driver. FreeBSD has less free wireless driver.
But Project Evil can run so much more wireless drivers from Windows XP it makes openBSD looks like crap.
And with this wireless exception, openbsd doesn't support as much hardware as FreeBSD does. FreeBSD can run the proprietary NVidia driver, that's more important for 99% of the desktop folks than some obscure crypto card.