Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Database for NetBSD. Contribute!
To: Brook Milligan <brook@biology.nmsu.edu>
From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/01/2000 12:42:31
On 01-Feb-00 Brook Milligan wrote:
> - Would it be useful to have some sort of guidelines for what the 1-10
> rating scale means? Just so there is some sort of comparability
> among entries.
I'm not sure.. any rating is going to be subject to opinion. It's basically
just a rough "how well did this thing work for you?"
> - I notice you have approximate prices. Would it be useful to have a
> table of potential vendors people have found reliable, reasonable,
> etc.? Not necessarily linked directly to the products (I don't
I'd rather not. That has the potential to turn into a pricewatch-type
database.. and I'd raher not go there. All that field is meant to do is
distinguish between a $100 ethernet card, and a $1000 ethernet card.
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