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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 6 Jun 1995 10:50:05 +0200
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matthew c. mead <mmead@Glock.COM> wrote:
>> Does FreeBSD support a larger number of "devices" than Linux ?
>> It didn't seem to support my Pentium/PCI chipset (SiS)
>> until the latest version, 2.0.5 .
>
> I don't know if it supports more devices. I think the only real
>concern is: Does it support the devices I as a user want to use?
It certainly doesn't (and this is partially due to the smaller user
base). However, i've been translating the RELNOTES file into German
last night (for the boot disk), and i've really been surprised about
the amount of added device drivers between 2.0R and 2.0.5. I didn't
even know about of the purpose of several devices which are supported
now... :)
Btw., among the new supported devices, there are very interesting
things like FDDI and 100 MBit/s ethernet... (which are not yet
supported in most commercial systems).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)