freebsd stable - Oct 2018 - FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:44:11AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev
wrote:
> OK I guess I can understand removing 10 (I personally haven't seen
> one in a very long time) but 100 are omnipresent and most of my NICs
> are in fact 100.
Sigh.  If you really plan to still be using i386 and 10/100 ether in
2024, perhaps you should consider NetBSD.

You can buy used core i5 laptops for around $20 if you shop around.

mcl

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:26:44PM +0000, Mark Linimon
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:44:11AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > OK I guess I can understand removing 10 (I personally haven't seen
> > one in a very long time) but 100 are omnipresent and most of my NICs
> > are in fact 100.
> 
> Sigh.  If you really plan to still be using i386 and 10/100 ether in
> 2024, perhaps you should consider NetBSD.
I don't quite understand why are you grouping 10/100 vs. 1000 rather than
10 vs. 100/1000.

./danfe

04.10.2018 21:26, Mark Linimon wrote:
> You can buy used core i5 laptops for around $20 if you shop around.
And plus even more for overseas delivery.