Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility
Intron
mag at intron.ac
Fri Jul 21 01:54:20 UTC 2006
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Intron wrote:
> > Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > Getting action from vendors has been unsuccessful in the past - the
> > > Free OS community (Linux + *BSD) is too small for vendors to be
> > > concerned about.
> >
> > I cannot agree with you. Linux has achieved much more support from
> > hardware vendors than FreeBSD.
>
> Interestingly, when I looked for a new laptop last year,
> it turned out that the number of laptops that ran FreeBSD
> was greater than those that ran Linux. (I finally chose
> a Samsung X20-XVM 1600-V, which works perfectly fine for
> me except for the built-in winmodem [which I don't need
> anyway]. A Linux live CD didn't even boot on it.)
Have a look at http://linmodems.org/ before your assertion.
How many modems listed on that website are support by FreeBSD?
Most of them are installed in laptops and nested on PCI bus.
>
> > You may look in Linux source code.
> > In linux-2.6.x/drivers/, there are so many hardware drivers.
>
> Yeah, most of which are crap. :-) The raw number of
> drivers says _nothing_ about hardware vendors' support.
This is a problem of code quality.
But at least Linux community has so many volunteers/vendors to write
drivers.
>
> > > I suspect the best solution is to publicise configurations that are
> > > known to work and what problems exist with other configurations.
>
> I tend to agree with Peter here. By the way, a very good
> resource for hardware support information is the search
> facility at Rambler: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
> PS: I think this thread might be inappropriate for the
> -hackers list. How about moving it to either -hardware
> or -chat? (I watch them all, so either is fine with me.)
>
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