On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Daniel Feenberg <feenb...@nber.org> wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:00:29 -0500, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:43:06 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
Allow me to provide just one example:
More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/**20187.html<http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html>
The only way for FreeBSD (or Linux, for that matter) to survive
in a world where hardware vendors care only about Windows, is
to make sure that FreeBSD only depends upon features that Windows
uses. If a hardware or firmware specification requires feature X,
but Windows doesn't use feature X, then vendors won't test feature
X, and FreeBSD can't depend on it being functional. So it shouldn't
be required by FreeBSD. It can be used, provided it isn't required.
In this case it may mean that FreeBSD must identify itself as
Windows, just as all browsers identify themselves as IE.
The above paragraph is completely meaningless , because neither *BSD , nor
Linux
is a marginal operating system .
Please see
http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/
Select from this "Operating System Family"
where in world's 500 super computers , Windows is on ONLY 3 computers , the
rest is
almost Linux 469 , Unix 20 , BSD-based 1 computers and others .
http://www.asus.com/Static_WebPage/OS_Compatibility/
http://www.asus.com/websites/global/aboutasus/OS/Linux.pdf
contains Linux distributions supported in ASUS desktop boards .
Some trade marked servers excluded , Linux and *BSD run on many server
hardware .
It isn't what vendors should care about. I agree they should care about
FreeBSD. But by and large they don't. Arguing that they should serves no
purpose. They have poor moral character, that is why they don't care and
also why they are impervious to argument, except from large customers. The
handful of server vendors that are exceptions do not detract from the
force of my argument.
daniel feenberg
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