Which OS for notebook

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote:

> I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find
> it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware;
> i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there
> are others, precludes me from seriously thinking about installing
> FreeBSD on a new laptop. The one PC that I have FreeBSD installed on is
> connected via Ethernet cable to my LAN. Once that PC is replaced by
> year's end with a more powerful, and wireless enabled unit, I am afraid
> my experiment with FreeBSD will come to a close. At present it
> certainly will not support the wireless card installed, and I am not
> even sure if it will support all of the other hardware either.
>
> I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play
> the "blame the manufacturers" whine. If that were factually correct,
> then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for
> hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned.
>
> The bottom line is that FreeBSD, if it is to continue to be considered
> a viable alternative operating system, must stay current in today's
> market. Many posts that I have viewed on other forums seem to feel that
> FreeBSD is sadly, whether do to bad choices such as those related to GPL
> licenses, or failure to properly gage today's market trends, is slipping
> into an abyss.

So. What's the connection between freebsd.user at seibercom.net, 
carmel_ny at hotmail.com and gesbbb at yahoo.com, who all post through 
scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why 
FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish?

And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any easy 
way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need to keep 
adding them one at a time?

Jonathan