FreeBSD 7.1 Content

[Dan Allen]

On 4 Sep 2008, at 3:42 AM, Oliver Peter wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:58:45PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
>>
>> On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>> Your patches to add support for the i4965 and your Marvell 88E80xx
>>> must have been stripped by the mailing list software.  Can you  
>>> please
>>> re-send them.
>>
>> I have not written patches, thus I did not send any patches.
>
> |
> `-->  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
>
> Btw. my philosophy is if you would like to use your favourite open  
> source
> operating system - which I guess is FreeBSD - on your new hardware,  
> you
> should spend additional 15 minutes when you make the decision what  
> hardware
> you are going to buy and check the specs with the "Hardware Notes" at
> http://www.freebsd.org/where.html.
>
> Complaining afterwards is easy but no one forces you to buy  
> unsupported
> hardware.

Point taken.  A $500 Dell laptop, however, will be a popular machine  
and sooner or later should be supported.

You know I thought you were being sarcastic, but then I was not sure...

Dan