lists through it is only
the signal, no noise at all ...
I'd definitely prefer to read freebsd.* newsgroups then deal with mailing lists
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On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Jeff Rollin wrote:
On 01/09/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so, should I then switch to Linux because they do welcome
'vendor written drivers'?
If by 'vendor-written drivers' you mean binary-only drivers, then no, the
linux kernel developers emphatically
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Harpalus a Como wrote:
I'm just a lurker on the OpenBSD list, but I think Charles is right about
Linux. The code is better then people give it credit for, and considering
it's vast popularity and what all it's accomplished, the bazaar model has
worked wonders. I'm not
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all
different goals...
Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one
example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Pedro Martelletto wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one
example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for,
what, 50+ distributions of linux
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote:
I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards
directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of
documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need
documentation for?
To fix the driver.
If the vendor
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote:
If the vendor is supporting the driver, and working with the community,
then one would hope that they would also fix the driver as bug reports
come in about it ...
That's too many ifs to be realworld-compatible.
And actually the only vendors I can
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Jason Dixon wrote:
If everyone had your attitude, there would be no *BSD. Settling for
good enough means never making progress.
Who ever said settling for good enough? I know I didn't ... if I
settled for good enough, I would have stuck it out with Linux years ago
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:
mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation is
pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work.
Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on these
lists that I may have offended ... but ... having
On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Gilles Chehade wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:
mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation
is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work.
Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, davide zanon wrote:
The reason why merging is impossible or stupid has been said some million
times... Different goals.
I'm curious here, but why did the *kernel* diverge for each project?
Like, I understand (or think I do) the philosophy of the OpenBSD project,
and
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote:
Marc G. Fournier writes:
I'm running AMD64 on HP Proliant G4p server with Dual 64bit Xeon CPUs ...
How much Ram Marc?
6G of RAM ... again, note that these are 64bit servers, and I believe
these servers max out at 24G (6x4G DIMMs
be sexy to have.
sexy locales never hurt, but locale bloat is distinctly spurious.
The last I checked, the reason why PostgreSQL implimented UNICODE support
was to avoid having to add every locale under the sun ... is there
something UNICODE *doesn't* handle?
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