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Next year will be too late. I'm looking to build a new system in the next couple of months. I'm sick of being considered second class because I'm using FreeBSD instead of Linux. Since this driver won't be ready, I'll be going with an Intel chipset. You snooze you lose.

If you are sick of being a second class citezen, do something about it. Write documentation, get people playing with, or learn to write code for FreeBSD. FreeBSD is pretty cool for what it is and still isn't too bad. The lack of really solid SMP support kills it for me though.

Open Source is about communities. Building them is the key to success. Financial backing also works.

Never underestimate the power of large numbers of people with common goals.

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I'm sick of being considered second class because I'm using FreeBSD instead of Linux.
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Sorry to break it to you. But you are a third class citizen. We Linux users are second class. For what that's worth. I sincerely hope it helps... at least some.

But with the opening of the specs, in a year maybe we can *all* be equals... and choose a video chipset based upon merit and not upon which vendor is willing to throw us the most crumbs. :-)

Unfortunately, now the problem has simply changed focus from video to wifi. I've been playing this game for 20 years. And I sometimes wonder if we are really making progress, or if the problems are escalating about as fast as they are being solved. I think we are making progress. But it feels like a long walk up a fast treadmill.