[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:50:53PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > The BSDs need more hardware vendor support, too.
> > 
> > no, they dont. what makes linux suck is how over-extended it is 
> > supporting everything. if they would just flatly say "no, we're not 
> > going to support joebobs backwoods video card," the code wouldnt be in 
> > your kernel config and it would be easier to know your kernel. the 
> > developers could focus on more important things. linux supports 
> > everything. but because they support everything, they support nothing 
> > "well." except i guess the intel/amd x86 platform.
> 
> Since when is nVidia some "Joe Bob's Backwoods" video card?
> And do you really think that having more vendors supply drivers
> for their hardware would be bad for *BSD?
> 
> Of course in the nVidia case we are not talking kernel about
> kernel code but rather XFree86.

Actually, the good nvidia drivers get built into the kernel.  But, I think
that is a bad move.
 

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd