Kurt H Maier dixit (2011-02-16, 19:48): > >Also, suggesting that people run *bsd on some modern commodity > >hardware (especially laptops) is totally unrealistic. > > That just tells me you have no experience or understanding regarding > the matter. I run linux on my laptop... but mostly because I have a > shitload of scripts I don't feel like porting. Openbsd, freebsd, > and pc-bsd all run excellently, with wifi and bluetooth support, on > every laptop in my house, which is a non-trivial population. If you > find that unrealistic, then it's your incompetence, and not software > failure, that cause it to be that way.
That's highly possible – I have limited lifetime though and having a comfortable work environment as I do now, I will probably never have the incentive to devote a substantial number of hours checking whether the hardware and the software I have will cooperate with bsds (already knowing some of it will not). -- [a]
