Hi Bret I'm actually quite interested in your experience, since I have been fighting and older nvidia optimus config myself. You are right in avoiding flame wars. So why not posting your current status? 😂
Thanks a ton /PA El 27/5/2016 20:32, "Bret Busby" <[email protected]> escribió: > On 27/05/2016, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > John Marino said: > >> So in other words, what does your quote about the relationship between > >> FreeBSD and DragonFly have to do with anything? > > > > These days Linux distributions call themselves "operating systems." I > > bet a lot of people who were not around 10 years ago reading > > > > | DragonFly BSD was originally forked from FreeBSD 4.8 in June of 2003, > > | by Matthew Dillon. The project was originally billed as "the logical > > | continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series", as quoted in Matthew Dillon's > > | announcement, but this description has long since become obsolete. > > > > think that DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD are distributions of the same "BSD" > > operating system, pretty much like Ubuntu Linux and Debian GNU/Linux are > > distributions of the same "Linux" operating system. > > > > I am amazed that OpenBSD mailing lists are not spammed with questions > > "Why my favorite NetBSD kernel module does not work?" > > > > Probably dragonflybsd.org should stress more that it is a proper > > operating system, and not a distribution or a tiny patchset against > > FreeBSD. > > > > -- > > Dmitrij D. Czarkoff > > > > Thank you, for making this a constructive thing again, instead of the > flame war that the other one started. > > I am currently a user of UbuntuMATE. Ubuntu Linux started as a > derivative of Debian Linux, then, went its own way, from what I > understand. That included some enhancements over Debian Linux. Ubuntu > Linux can install some .deb packages, that can be installed and run on > Linux. > > I switched from Debian Linux to UbuntuMATE, because, at the time, > Ubuntu Linux was the only non-Microsoft operating system, that had > drivers for both the CPU and the GPU, on this computer. Debian Linux > had neither a driver for the CPU, nor a driver for the GPU. (By the > GPU, I refer to the nVIDIA one, not the one that is part of the Intel > Haskell architecture in the system). > > At the time, DragonflyBSD had a driver for the CPU; the Intel Haskell > architecture, and was the only non-Microsoft operating system, other > than Ubuntu Linux, that I found, that had that driver. But, > DragonflyBSD did not have a driver for the nVIDIA GPU. > > From what I understood, DragonflyBSD was way ahead of FreeBSD, in > terms of drivers. > > I did not know that FreeBSD software, in whatever form (packages or > otherwise), would not run on DragonflyBSD. > > From what I understand of Linux, a "binary" can be installed on any > distribution of Linux, and, a "package" requires a package manager, > and, some Linux distributions have package mangers that can deal with > some package types (eg, Ubuntu and Debian may be able to both deal > with .deb packages, and, so might some other distributions, and, > package managers may be available for some distributions, to deal with > packages designed for other distributions (I believe that a package > manager is available for the .deb package based systems, that can deal > with .rpm packages) ). > > So, I figured that it could be possible that this new (about a day or > two, old) driver for the nVIDIA GPU, being a binary, rather than a > distribution (eg freeBSD or DragonflyBSD or OpenBSD, etc, etc, etc) > specific package, could be installed and run on DragonflyBSD. I did > not expect a flame war to be started over the issue. > > Such contempt for inexperience, and hateful behaviour, as demonstrated > in this matter (not by the person, whose message is above), is not > conducive to increasing the popularity of the operating system. > > If a person makes an incorrect assumption, such as I did, it would > have been sufficient to have simply stated, in a friendly manner, that > the particular driver would not work with DragonflyBSD, instead of > flying around in a rabid rage with no sense being able to be drawn > from the ravings. > > > -- > > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... >
