<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">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.</div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1416417774388880128" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Kristopher Browne<br><br></div></div> <div style="color:black"><br>From: <span style="color:black">Linda Kateley</span> <a href="mailto:lkateley@kateley.com"><lkateley@kateley.com></a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">TCLUG Mailing List</span> <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org"><tclug-list@mn-linux.org>></a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">November 19, 2014 at 10:47:33</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</span> <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org"><tclug-list@mn-linux.org>></a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [tclug-list] Penguins Unbound November 2014 Meeting <br></span></div><br> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
<br>On 11/19/14, 10:41 AM, Andrew Berg wrote:
<br>> On 2014.11.19 10:29, Mark Goodell wrote:
<br>>> Thank you, Ryan.
<br>>>
<br>>> It's a several year old Compaq Presario M2000 (1/2 G Mem), on which I've
<br>>> got Ubuntu (12.04) loaded - though I'm unable to get the WIFI working).
<br>>> Ubuntu ver. 13.04 hangs when I try to load it.
<br>>> I'm just attracted to BSD on principle, if, of course, there's a version small enough
<br>>> to work on this, and would otherwise be compatible. (Much frustration with Ubuntu
<br>>> -- largely over the WIFI -- though I give it, along with Linux Mint,
<br>>> great credit for at least loading on this.)
<br>> Most wireless card vendors are very unhelpful (they don't release much, if any,
<br>> documentation), and there are not many people working on wireless in the BSDs
<br>> in general, so unless the card is Atheros- or Realtek- based, I wouldn't be too
<br>> hopeful. Any of the BSDs will definitely run on that kind of machine, but
<br>> between the lack of documentation from vendors, the lack of volunteers working
<br>> on wireless card drivers in FreeBSD, and OpenBSD completely rejecting binary
<br>> firmware blobs, wireless card support outside of Atheros is generally not good
<br>> on *BSD, unfortunately.
<br>I would definately agree with this. I think that freebsd in general just
<br>see itself as a server os. Wireless just isn't a issue.
<br>
<br>When you look at the big boys running though.. like netflix it's a nice
<br>server os.
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