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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!poulosio From: poulosio@netcom.com (Mad Max) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <poulosioDIGuzK.2GK@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Organization: Troll Busters Ltd. Melbourne VIC. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <poulosioDI20sJ.5vz@netcom.com> <48buod$cue@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <poulosioDIFAnC.ECw@netcom.com> <48vcmk$j0v@ionews.io.org> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 22:40:31 GMT Lines: 32 Sender: poulosio@netcom3.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27683 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9135 comp.unix.advocacy:11147 comp.unix.misc:19576 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8863 Lau (gabe@io.org) wrote: : So what you're saying is that Linux shouldn't support your drive at all, : that way, you won't have *anything* to whine about right! No. If it's on the "compatibility list" it's supported, right? Well, I found out that when one person somewhere manages to make something work once, it's deemed "compatible". : "Here's a free loaf of bread." : "What!! It isn't sliced... I want mine sliced... Hey, this is whole : wheat! I want plain white! Where's the butter!!" : You're not in a restaurant, you are *NOT* being served. If you want to : be *SERVED*, go shell out the $$$$ for $CO or Micro$oft. Better yet, : find a local TLUG group and offer $$ for some high-school/college hacker : to fix it for you. I BOUGHT the CDs. I did not get them free. If I were FTPing it, you would have a point in your ranting about my ranting. Have you ever heard of dissatisfied users? You should fdlame the rogue manufacturers that produce fucked up CDs, not the victims of their marketing. Fuck off. -- "When I collect two solar masses of AOL Disks, I will use them to detonate the Sun" Web Page URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/po/poulosio/poulosio.html Mad Max, LT, TRES Corps, Kappa. Shut the immigration inlet valve NOW! Linux: You get what you pay for.