From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 13:13:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE04437B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:13:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com (quarter.csl.sri.com [130.107.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672CE43F5F for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (beast.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.57]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0ALDk2x004763; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:13:47 -0800 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beast.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0ALCmvV069702; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:12:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@beast.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200301102112.h0ALCmvV069702@beast.csl.sri.com> To: BSD baby Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd curiosity In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:02:15 PST." <20030110130215.A24273@mail.hitmedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:12:48 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm always AMAZED at how well FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) just recognize > things immediately: no special drivers-CD-or-floppy needed. The flip-side of this is that it is often very simple to lift a harddrive with freebsd installed from one machine and place it in another and not have the device driver nightmare that one has with Windows. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message