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FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices (News.com)

FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices (News.com)

Posted Aug 19, 2005 21:06 UTC (Fri) by gte223j (guest, #6492)
Parent article: FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices (News.com)

"includes support for "a lot more" wireless cards"

I wonder if this is because of OpenBSD's fight.........no props were given.....

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2005052419...

and

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2005030115...

--Brian


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FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices (News.com)

Posted Aug 23, 2005 12:48 UTC (Tue) by bohra (guest, #31342) [Link]

Well not quite, the OpenBSD people consider the wireless drivers included in FreeBSD "not free" as only the APIs are open and not the entire source code.
And their activism has had no effect (at least till now)

Aniruddha

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