i give up

[Kip Macy]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<stephen at math.missouri.edu> wrote:
> Randy Bush wrote:
>>
>> what a tragic story.  and zero technical info, like even what your
>> controller is.  best of luck in penguin land.  bye!
>
> I have had experiences where modern hardware is such that Linux will work,
> and FreeBSD won't.  So I find myself forced to use Linux.  But I find the
> experience so frustrating, that as soon as FreeBSD catches up to that
> hardware - and this always seems to happen - I immediately go back to
> FreeBSD.

Twice I've had the opposite experience, once with a server and once
with my shuttle desktop. I bought them to do Linux work but none of
the half dozen linux distros I tried supported the SATA controller.
However ... FreeBSD installed just fine.

Your mileage will vary.

Cheers,
Kip