I would disagree – I think you’d find that most of the FreeBSD folks consider themselves working to build the most flexible general-purpose platform they can, so users can apply whatever use they want on top of it. I do know from what I’ve seen on their announcements and mailing lists that they try to avoid any choices that will pigeon-hole the platform to any role. -- Kristopher Browne From: Linda Kateley <lkateley at kateley.com> Reply: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>> Date: November 19, 2014 at 10:47:33 To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Penguins Unbound November 2014 Meeting On 11/19/14, 10:41 AM, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.11.19 10:29, Mark Goodell wrote: >> Thank you, Ryan. >> >> It's a several year old Compaq Presario M2000 (1/2 G Mem), on which I've >> got Ubuntu (12.04) loaded - though I'm unable to get the WIFI working). >> Ubuntu ver. 13.04 hangs when I try to load it. >> I'm just attracted to BSD on principle, if, of course, there's a version small enough >> to work on this, and would otherwise be compatible. (Much frustration with Ubuntu >> -- largely over the WIFI -- though I give it, along with Linux Mint, >> great credit for at least loading on this.) > Most wireless card vendors are very unhelpful (they don't release much, if any, > documentation), and there are not many people working on wireless in the BSDs > in general, so unless the card is Atheros- or Realtek- based, I wouldn't be too > hopeful. Any of the BSDs will definitely run on that kind of machine, but > between the lack of documentation from vendors, the lack of volunteers working > on wireless card drivers in FreeBSD, and OpenBSD completely rejecting binary > firmware blobs, wireless card support outside of Atheros is generally not good > on *BSD, unfortunately. I would definately agree with this. I think that freebsd in general just see itself as a server os. Wireless just isn't a issue. When you look at the big boys running though.. like netflix it's a nice server os. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20141119/2cfaacfc/attachment.html>