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From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
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: 1 Jan 1996 13:36:00 GMT
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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.

--Tim Smith