So I wanted to apologize for sending such an angry email to
this list,
especially without giving more detail as was mentioned in
the Milo Hyson
email response. I had spent some time not being able to use
FreeBSD as a
stable workstation because of hardware compatibility issues
on a Gateway
machine. During that time I had been forced to run Windows
or Linux as my
desktop which sucks. I bought a new Dell E521 machine with
a pretty vanilla
hardware spec, and didn’t before I bought it check to see if
FreeBSD would
support it. This is my fault, but in my defense at this
stage in the game
you’d think FreeBSD would support things like USB, SATA
drives, CD-ROMS, etc
especially when I'm running 5.x and 6.x on my servers at
work.
When my machine came in I was very excited to start
installing FreeBSD so I
could once again have a real workstation. I tried
installing 6.1 amd64 and
it crashed before it even finished loading. It crashed
because of USB
issues. I unplugged the keyboard and then it hung on the
SATA drive. I had
problems with amd and non-amd branches ranging from 5.x and
6.x. So I
burned a 7.0 install disc and it still crashed if the USB
keyboard was
plugged in, but at least didn’t hang on the SATA drive. Go
to install and
the CD-ROM is not recognized (though I’m sitting in
sysinstall because I
booted from disc). So I ended up FTP’ing 6.2-Beta2 and
actually made it
through the install. Yay!
But now I can’t reboot my machine with the mouse or keyboard
plugged into
it, I can’t use my cd-rom, the sound doesn’t work and my
mouse freezes all
the time making this another desktop that I can’t run
FreeBSD on. I’m not
new to this OS and I have spent more time than I care to
recall hacking
through these issues, rewriting code and so on. And during
the 4.x years
and even 5.x I accepted this and moved on. But at this
stage in the game I
figured that the OS would be at a point where it could
handle a vanilla
spec’d Dell. I’m willing to blame Gateway, I’m willing to
blame Dell, if it
weren’t for the fact that I can install several versions of
Linux and
Windows with no issues. It's hard convincing people to
switch from Windows
or Linux when you can't even install the OS on a generic PC.
I don’t want to run Windows, I don’t want to run Linux, I
just wanted a
freakin BSD box again. So yeah, I was really pissed and yes
I acted like a
troll. I apologize for that, but I still stand behind the
fact that at this
stage in the game, after all these years these types of
fundamental issues
should not be happening and while it’s lame to flame the
mailing list
because of my frustration its even more lame I don’t get to
run FreeBSD.
And what really sucks is finally getting new people to check
out this OS I
have been pushing only to find they can't use if if they
want a keyboard, or
a mouse or a cd-rom or a sound card installed.
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