From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 31 20:17:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 20:17:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6220037B400 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from browning.pennasoft.com (browning [192.168.168.11]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f014IiP45962 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 23:18:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 23:18:46 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Sender: behanna@browning.pennasoft.com Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Boot ManagerQuestions In-Reply-To: <3A4FC476.F0BE8030@quake.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > Chris BeHanna wrote: > > > > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > > > > > On a laptop I dont really see why anyone would want to duel boot with > > > windows, its not like you are going to be playing OpenGL games on a > > > laptop, and IMO thats all windows is useful for... And that is slowly > > > changing, since now Quake3 is ported to FreeBSD Im sure more games > > > will follow! :) > > > > You might want to use a piece of unsupported hardware, like your > > DVD drive (for watching movies) or a SmartMedia-to-USB adapter. > > Rip the DVD to the hdd and play it with AVIFILE from the ports :P Not very practical. A typical movie fills up 10GB. Yes, you could rip it to something smaller, but that's still pretty impractical. > Biuld support for your hardware! I made an overture, but the silence from the USB guys was deafening. I may have hit them at a busy time. > Dont use SmartMedia-to-USB adapter :) I already have it. It'd be a shame to have paid for it, and then spend the money on a PCMCIA IDE adapter for it. > Simple all your duel boot needs gone! Almost. We don't have (and won't have for some time), support for the Sorensen codec; therefore, many (most?) Quicktime clips cannot be viewed, and for some time to come, we also won't have support for ASX or ASF streams. I can live without most of that, but it's darned inconvenient. I've made some headway with porting LiViD (for DVDs), but time is at a premium right now, and that work has come to a standstill. Then there's mounting CD-RWs that haven't been closed out to ISO9660. I'm not bitching, mind you--I love FreeBSD, and only boot Windows when I absolutely must. These are just reasons why I cannot yet completely jettison Windows. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net Remove "bogus" before responding. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message