Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Mar 2008 20:48 UTC, submitted by Valour
"Here we are at the moment of truth for the FreeBSD operating system - the 7.0 release. This is what FreeBSD users and developers have been waiting for ever since the dark days of the 5.X series when the promises of superior performance, threading, and stability fell flat. Though each release in the FreeBSD 6.X series improved markedly in quality and performance, 7.0 has been widely anticipated as the release that FreeBSD fans can have confidence in. I wish I could say that FreeBSD 7.0 lived up to the hype."
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"The user does not care if the device adheres to the standard or not. Only that it works (or not)."
. . . but hardware that adheres to standards "just works", whereas hardware that doesn't adhere to standards requires a lot of effort to get working. Isn't that the point -- getting stuff to work without a lot of effort?
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2005-07-24
I'm not sure that you took my post in the right way.
You said that more USB devices have problems with FreeBSD than Linux. I include this quote, for reference:
I merely pointed out that:
1. On the hundred or so Linux and Windows machines I administer, I have not found USB to be a particular problem (mess) in the past few years.
2. The user does not care if the device adheres to the standard or not. Only that it works (or not).
3. If FreeBSD needs more workarounds for common hardware, it would be best if they went in.
Of course there is plenty of hardware out there that does not adhere to standards. So what else is new? And as long as there is, the patching and blacklisting will have to continue.