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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 1 Jan 1996 22:55:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4c9op2$k9o@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu> <4bs4cu$mkm@gandalf.compumedia.com> <4bthbq$mfp@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4c8o00$p5e@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31407 alt.os.linux:6707 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11171 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1670 Tim Smith (tzs@coho.halcyon.com) wrote: : David E. O'Brien <obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote: : >Once again we have ignorance about FreeBSD. The reason for slower driver : >development isn't because of the structured development nature of FBSD. : >RATHER it is because FBSD has a smaller user base, and thus a smaller : >number of people that have weird hardware and gets a hair up their ass to : >write a driver for it. There is NOTHING stopping Joe User from writing a : : Your theory can be seen to be bull by simply noticing that FreeBSD : driver development slowness is not limited to weird hardware. Again in English. Please expound on this so I have some idea to what you are refering to. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)