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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) 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) Date: 1 Jan 1996 21:19:21 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 38 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4c9j4p$mu7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu> <4bs4cu$mkm@gandalf.compumedia.com> <4bthbq$mfp@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4c8o00$p5e@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:32151 alt.os.linux:6904 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11499 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1728 In article <4c8o00$p5e@news1.halcyon.com>, tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes: |> 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 |> |> Your theory can be seen to be bull by simply noticing that FreeBSD |> driver development slowness is not limited to weird hardware. What makes you think that ??? There was support for several PCI devices in FreeBSD in 1994. (How about Linux ???) The BSD NCR driver was first released in June 1994 and became full featured (disconnect, tags, FAST and WIDE transfers) more than one year ago. Before the end of 1994 there was support for PCI networks cards for 10/100baseT and FDDI/CDDI. PCI to PCI bridges are supported for nearly one year, too. Their support is required for 4channel Ethernet cards or the Adaptec 3940 dual channel SCSI host adapter. There is support for a number of PCI cards, which are not well supported under Linux today, AFAIK. How about the Meteor frame grabber card, for example ? (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>