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#! rnews 1810 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!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) Date: 28 Dec 1995 07:35:22 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4bthbq$mfp@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4att23$mha@agate.berkeley.edu> <4au4fo$pbo@agate.berkeley.edu> <4av7jh$k48@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu> <4bs4cu$mkm@gandalf.compumedia.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:31569 alt.os.linux:6735 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11206 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1677 Scott McDermott (scottm@compumedia.com) wrote: : but who knows. Couple of other points, FreeBSD seems slower in getting : drivers for new hardware out, it also doesn't support as much hardware. : This is primarily because of the highly structured nature of FreeBSD's : development cycle, but this does hurt FreeBSD a bit. 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 hardware driver and submitting it for inclusion in the official FBSD release, other than motivation (and possibly technical prowess). -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)