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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!tsunami.ixa.net!gandalf.compumedia.com!galadriel!scottm From: scottm@compumedia.com (Scott McDermott) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 3 Jan 1996 00:21:11 GMT Organization: Compumedia, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4cci5n$5el@gandalf.compumedia.com> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4att23$mha@agate.berkeley.edu> <4au4fo$pbo@agate.berkeley.edu> <4av7jh$k48@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu> <4bs4cu$mkm@gandalf.compumedia.com> <4bthbq$mfp@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: galadriel.compumedia.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31599 alt.os.linux:6742 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11214 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1682 David E. O'Brien (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote: : Once again we have ignorance about FreeBSD. The reason for slower driver : development isn't because of the structured development nature of FBSD. : RATHER it is because FBSD has a smaller user base, and thus a smaller : number of people that have weird hardware and gets a hair up their ass to : write a driver for it. There is NOTHING stopping Joe User from writing a : hardware driver and submitting it for inclusion in the official FBSD : release, other than motivation (and possibly technical prowess). As I said in my post, those were my opinions. Feel free to disagree, but please do it with some respect in the future. -- | Scott McDermott | System Administrator | Compumedia, Inc.