Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro
- From: espie@xxxxxxxxx (Marc Espie)
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:45:04 +0000 (UTC)
In article <c6fr73tfesjepdlcom64ct86di6dbihsui@xxxxxxx>,
<t2000kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But if Open BSD is really based on another branch of BSD,
the other one would probably be as likely to support my hardware,
shouldn't it?
Nope, not necessarily. especially where wireless cards are concerned.
If you read around, you'll see a lot of info that indicates the OpenBSD
project has done some major efforts to get a lot of wireless cards natively
supported, some of which is not yet available on the other BSDs.
Look, you're unwilling to do the basic work of trying things out. You insist
you understand things better than we do... like, we told you repeatedly
there *is* a CD image you can use to do the installation. We told you
repeatedly that it is *likely* your wireless card might be supported
by that CD image... apparently, you're unwilling to even try, and you're
so thick-headed and conventional that you insist you can't install if you
don't have a full-size CD image, and that it is not possible that we support
your wireless card ?
Why can't you accept that we are a different culture, and that we do stuff
in different ways than what you're used to ?
It's not as if the www site is not choke-full of install information (maybe
too much), and as if it doesn't mention the hardware we support in full and
extensive detail. It's not as if it will cost you all that much to burn the
cd install media once and try things out (at least get to the dmesg part,
you'll see whether your hardware is supported). Or find out somebody in your
geographic area that owns an official CD and borrow it...
It's not as if there are not *tons* of solutions to your immediate issues.
We've even given you a lot of them, but no, you insist that what YOU want
isn't possible.
Do we care ? not that much. OpenBSD is not developped for YOU. It's developped
because the developpers want it to be that way. Coincidentally, it's also
possible to install it. Thousands of people around the world can do it.
.
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