Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:19:14 -0500, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Define: 'Actual Work'? What you are referring to is that it meets your criteria. Everyone's work platform might not be so narrow. ometimes, actual work may be entertainment, gaming, or programming obscure hardware platforms. :-)

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Ole
BTW on the http://forums.freebsd.org number of multimedia-related questions is more than server-side ;) And this is fact - FreeBSD become to Desktop due to work of many peoples who porting multimedia application to FreeBSD. Therefore this functional be want. But without good supports of

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:46:49PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: snip IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD;

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some problems, but it's still impossible to burn a DVD for example. i don't have. i

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Julien Cigar
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:56 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: - on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some problems, but it's

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Ole
Also you can use portupgrade -PP -PP --use-packages-onlyNever use the port even if a package is not avail- able either locally or remotely, although you still have to keep your ports tree up-to-date so

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: At work, FreeBSD and Solaris are present. For some fields of use, I would not FreeBSD instead of Solaris. However, I found isn't the reason to using solaris just the need to run solaris-only binary software? I believe there are cases where the vendor

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for multiple OSes, but offers official support for only some of them. If having vendor support is a deal-breaker - either for operational or contractual reasons - and the only alternative to Solaris is Windowsmumble well - solaris is not that bad. it's unix, you can work on it normally,

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
except when i forgot to unmount - yep, the problem lies here, it's so natural to just unplug an USB device it's so natural to unmount device before removing. at least in unix... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:10:18 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: except when i forgot to unmount - yep, the problem lies here, it's so natural to just unplug an USB device it's so natural to unmount device before removing. at least in unix... On a modern UNIX (like

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:09:39 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well - solaris is not that bad. it's unix, you can work on it normally, it's just slow etc... Considering the things the system is doing for me it certainly is not slow. It's a rock-solid UNIX but like sendmail

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Julien Cigar
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 17:10 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: except when i forgot to unmount - yep, the problem lies here, it's so natural to just unplug an USB device it's so natural to unmount device before removing. at least in unix... true too .. :)

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:23:04 +0100, Julien Cigar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you may pkg_add from ftp repository of course .. too bad that there is no pkg_upgrade You can use: portupgrade -PP pkgname This will only use pre-compiled packages to upgrade.

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread eculp
Quoting Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be: On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:56 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: - on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc),

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:51:22 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good. i'm not so sure that is really THAT good. bells and whistles if not carefully

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Charlie Kester
On Thu 11 Dec 2008 at 10:37:42 PST prad wrote: while i agree with you as far as having suitable driver accessibility, i don't see why one system needs to try to be all things to all people. I agree. But if FreeBSD isn't trying to be all things to all people, the implication is that it IS

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: that's the most narrow minded post i've seen here since i'm on this group or your narrow mail reading . As if the only work that can be considered real work is the work you do... The reason why I CAN'T do any serious work

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:28:00PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good. in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying a bit for windows is

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Julien Cigar wrote: Just to share my point of view : I use FreeBSD only since 6.2, before that I was a long-time Debian user. For the little experience I have with it I must admit that it looks pretty solid and a perfect choice for a server (for

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:09:51 -0800 Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: The impression I get from the website is that FreeBSD is indeed trying to be all things to all people. Did I miss something? charlie, i think the point of that page is indicated here: Here are some examples of the

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
While OpenBSD has a great reputation as a server operating system, it for whom? ;) it's just overadvertised nothing more, having no adventage over FreeBSD in any point. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Please stop trolling. having different opinion than yours isn't trolling. and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because your is different. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:38:30PM +0300, Ole wrote: Also you can use portupgrade -PP -PP --use-packages-onlyNever use the port even if a package is not avail- able either locally or remotely, although you still have to

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
instead. This function sets in configure by program author and when you working with ports you can play this options I'd love to drop GNOME and KDE support for OO.o, but on my laptop I really don't have the resources to spare for compiling OO.o, so I live with whatever's in the package. Such

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:32:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Please stop trolling. having different opinion than yours isn't trolling. and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because your is different. It's not just that you have a different opinion than me -- it's that every time

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Charlie Kester
On Thu 11 Dec 2008 at 11:32:57 PST prad wrote: charlie, i think the point of that page is indicated here: Here are some examples of the environments in which FreeBSD is used these are examples of freebsd's versatility, which is not the same as saying freebsd is ubiquitously versatile.

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Tyson Boellstorff
On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:55:04 Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:32:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Please stop trolling. having different opinion than yours isn't trolling. and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because your is different. It's not just that

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread michael
Tyson Boellstorff wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:55:04 Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:32:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Please stop trolling. having different opinion than yours isn't trolling. and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Peter Harrison
Thursday, 11 December 2008 at 12:28:00 +0100, Wojciech Puchar said: The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good. in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying a bit for windows

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:12:19 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Please stop trolling. chad, i don't think this is fair to wojciech. he is expressing his feelings and considerable knowledge about an os that he doesn't want to go the way of certain others. i find he writes concisely and

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:20:23 -0800 Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: Goals are one thing. How much progress you've made toward meeting your goals is another. This thread has been about some things FreeBSD still needs to do in order to meet what do seem to be, after all, some of

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:30:32 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: for whom? ;) it's just overadvertised nothing more, ya well i'm not trying to do their advertising :D :D i merely copied it from their page. we did use openbsd for 1 yr for our servers and it was ok

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Polytropon
Let me jump in again here. On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:46:22 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: so performance, networking (and presumably serving), storage, administration and documentation would seem to be major matters of concern. That's a valid point. I definitely don't want to see

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:03:13 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: well i thought the 3.9 fish was kinda cute, but beastie is still much better! Yes, it is. =^_^= --- http://www.spilth.org/pictures/girls/ceren/ -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
things changing. Because I have to administer and to program on FreeBSD, I enjoy (!) the excellent documentation. Everything is there, from system binaries, configuration files, maintenance procedures, system calls and kernel interfaces. Just look into i fully agree with you the Linux world -

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:06:35 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: in linux: man command this manual is no longer maintained. try info, google or wiki. maybe you will find your documentation, maybe not. Or try this with third party software on FreeBSD, for

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Bernt Hansson
Julien Cigar said the following on 2008-12-11 14:40: - Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... is just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but it's being resolved I think). Of course you can use -j to build ports. Just cd to/your/port

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:03:24 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: In Germany, we have the term eierlegende Wollmilchsau (egg- laying wool-milk-sow) that is indeed a great term! MICROS~1's customers want bugs, they get bugs because they paid for them. :-) :D may be the mac people can

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:46:36PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: instead. This function sets in configure by program author and when you working with ports you can play this options I'd love to drop GNOME and KDE support for OO.o, but on my laptop I really don't have the resources to spare

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:44:06 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: may be the mac people can use your line here in one of their commercials :D But only if Mac OS X supports 8.3 filenames. :-) You give them computing power not imaginable 10 years ago, and they treat their system like

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:23:03PM -0500, michael wrote: I agree. nothing wrong with his posts. the mailing list was never described as a warm, social gather. you want answers, and you get them here. i for one would rather him be abrupt and short. no need for the pomp and circumstance. I

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:24:19PM -0800, prad wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:12:19 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Please stop trolling. chad, i don't think this is fair to wojciech. he is expressing his feelings and considerable knowledge about an os that he doesn't want to

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:46:22PM -0800, prad wrote: looking further we see: ... As a result, FreeBSD may be found across the Internet, in the operating system of core router products, running root name servers, hosting major web sites, and as the foundation for widely used desktop

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:11:25 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: His manner of expressing his feelings seems to be to try to crush others' beneath his heel. Try examining the definition of the word fair before you use it in the future. ok, chad, here's what you find on

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Can we stop trying to dissuade people from improving FreeBSD, and from advocating for improvements? i don't think that's really what is happening, chad. i think there is just some disagreement as to what is considered

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:47:23PM -0800, prad wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:11:25 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: His manner of expressing his feelings seems to be to try to crush others' beneath his heel. Try examining the definition of the word fair before you use it in

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0800, prad wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Can we stop trying to dissuade people from improving FreeBSD, and from advocating for improvements? i don't think that's really what is happening, chad. i

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:46:54 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: My point exactly -- you rush to his defense, making statements that seem intended to skewer me for things he has done. I don't consider that the epitome of fairness. i'm not trying to skewer you. i only stated that i

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Tyson Boellstorff
On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:58:14 Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0800, prad wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700 i don't think that's really what is happening, chad. i think there is just some disagreement as to what is considered an improvement. So .

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread prad
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:58:14 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated graphics is not an improvement, and should therefore not be considered a worthy goal? no. access to hardware probably is a worthy goal, however, you

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-10 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: snip IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization to improve its basic

Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread onsapoengo Ons
Hello ! It would be desirable to learn from experienced users OS - why FreeBSD does not concern the category serious systems at the overwhelming majority of manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when anybody from manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when anybody from because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users. manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to find a few given out put normal OS - their list is at us on a site and then

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 09:40:46 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when anybody from because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users. That is plain good business sense. As Willy Sutton once remarked

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which are the future of computing. Does anyone know of any recent progress on a 64bit Nvidia Driver? there is mention of

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone know of any recent progress on a 64bit Nvidia Driver? there is mention of progress on this page http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545page=24 most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed 3D. so simply don't use nvidia/ati

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Ole Vole
If only 3D or super-high-speed has been affected by this driver. Regrettably most application simple is not usable, like video-players, google-earth, KDE4 - all of that on my desktop station with 4Gb of RAM is looksworks like nightmare in vesa (xorg nv)-driver. And me too a very long time

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/7/08, Ole Vole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If only 3D or super-high-speed has been affected by this driver. Regrettably most application simple is not usable, like video-players, google-earth, KDE4 - all of that on my desktop station with 4Gb of RAM is looksworks like nightmare in

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 08:29:32AM -0500, Jerry wrote: IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization to improve its basic

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed 3D. Who is most freebsd users? I agree that there are more important things to worry about than nvidia/amd64 support, but: if you want to buy a computer

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Does anyone know of any recent progress on a 64bit Nvidia Driver? there is mention of progress on this page http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545page=24 most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread prad
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:17 +0100 Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who is most freebsd users? i would think most are interested in running servers or routers or possible scientific applications or engaged in os study and appreciate its simplicity and consistency. i don't think it can

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
Paul B. Mahol writes: Simple solution: Pay them or someone to do it for you, or hack it yourself, or wait for it little longer. Given nVidia has offered to write and maintain a driver ... if we're going this route, the correct solution is to pay someone to make the changes nVidia

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