tl;dr Theo de Raadt thinks TI chipsets are crap. Did this one sentence list e-mail from 10 years ago really warrant a post?
I don’t follow OpenBSD enough, so correct me if needed: does Theo/the OpenBSD team still recommend buying Taiwanese? IIRC Realtek/Ralink/etc. are very forthcoming with hardware and documentation as compared to Intel/Broadcom and the other usual suspects.
Bonus favorite Theo quote, in response to a person asking a ton of questions about hardware they didn’t actually have:
So I have a question. I don’t wood work, and I don’t have any wood, and I don’t have any wood working tools, but if I was to, er, what is the word – is it “lathe”? That spinny thing? What happens if my power cable gets unplugged while I am doing that. Do I just plug it in? Thanks. I was curious. So excited to hear the answers.
tl;dr Theo de Raadt thinks TI chipsets are crap. Did this one sentence list e-mail from 10 years ago really warrant a post?
If you enjoy Theo quotes, you might also enjoy mg’s “M-x theo” feature (source: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/theo.c?rev=1.143&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)
I don’t follow OpenBSD enough, so correct me if needed: does Theo/the OpenBSD team still recommend buying Taiwanese? IIRC Realtek/Ralink/etc. are very forthcoming with hardware and documentation as compared to Intel/Broadcom and the other usual suspects.
Bonus favorite Theo quote, in response to a person asking a ton of questions about hardware they didn’t actually have:
That thread started with someone asking simply whether USB-to-serial adapters were generally well-supported and if someone could recommend one: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/217102/focus=217120
In response, people were jerks.
It wouldn’t be a favorite Theo quote if he wasn’t a jerk!