On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:01:08PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Swiger > >Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:24 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? > > >
[...] > > > but I'm > >generally of > >the opinion that FreeBSD works just fine, most of the time, on > >most hardware, > >without any specific tweaking or tuning to be entirely usable. > > > > It does not. In reality, current versions of FreeBSD work better > on current versions of hardware. FreeBSD has a terrible history > of breaking things that used to work on old hardware, then > when someone complains that something is broken, the developers > in effect tell them their old hardware is crappy junk and to buy new > hardware. > > Try running FreeBSD 6.X on a 80486 or Pentium system. FreeBSD 6.x works just fine on a Pentium system, as long as you have enough memory. > FreeBSD 4.11 > runs just fine on that hardware, if a bit slowly. But, I don't need > speed to control my garden sprinklers. > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
