Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

[Jerry]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 09:40:46 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

>> manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when
>> anybody from
>
>because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users.

That is plain good business sense. As Willy Sutton once remarked to a
reporter, Mitch Ohnstad, who asked why he robbed banks by saying,
"because that's where the money is."

>> manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to
>> find a few
>
>> given out "put normal OS - their list is at us on a site and then we
>> will
>
>i recommend you to find "normal shop" to buy hardware, that allow you
>to fully test computer before buying.

Obvious, if you are buying a custom built unit. Maybe, even if you
buying a generic unit.

>if you think there are larger (even hundreds means larger) start
>selling "FreeBSD compatible computers" in your area!
>
>You could make money on that, many people will easily spend 100$ more
>for computer that is already tested 100% FreeBSD compatible.
>
>All you have to do is to test/check lots of different parts of
>hardware if it actually work with FreeBSD fine, and make computers
>from that parts.

The problem with the business design is what do you do if a customer
wants a specific hardware device that FreeBSD does not support. The
changes of that happening in Linux are much less, and with Windows,
virtually never at all.

IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement,
it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed
a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization
to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which
are the future of computing.


-- 
Jerry
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is the process of discovering them over and over and over.

	David Nichols
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