From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 19:45:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27604 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 19:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from singularity.enigami.com (singularity.enigami.com [208.140.182.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27598 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 19:45:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ckempf@singularity.enigami.com) Received: (from ckempf@localhost) by singularity.enigami.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA03074; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:44:07 -0400 (EDT) To: andre.boeder@hanse-net.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-Writer, Scanner, ELF binaries References: <35EDB635.52A755E2@hanse-net.de> X-Copyright: Copyright (C) 1998 Cory Kempf. All Rights Reserved X-PGP-Fingerprint: 191E 2FB7 E27D 76C3 8E79 4D26 2B3B B20F 2A9C 1E1A X-PGP-Keyloc: ; finger ckempf@enigami.com From: Cory Kempf Date: 02 Sep 1998 22:44:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: Andre Boeder's message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 23:18:45 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andre" == Andre Boeder writes: > I´ve got three questions before I´ll buy FreeBSD: ^^^ ^^^^ Uh, you don't have to buy it: it's *free*... > 1. Can I run my old ELF binaries (Linux) ? Maybe. I use Linux WordPerfect, Netscape, and Wingz binaries all the time. Alegro Common Lisp from Franz, on the other hand, doesn't seem to want to work. YMMV. > 2. What´s about a CD-Writer running under FreeBSD ? CDRecord has been ported to FreeBSD-Current + CAM, and worked with my CDR drive. YMMV. > 3. Does FreeBSD support scanners ? I ported SANE to FreeBSD-Current + CAM. It worked with my scanner. Once again, YMMV. +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message