Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 19:58:04 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> Cc: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search Message-ID: <389A403C.76F0D62F@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002021055590.10062-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002022158340.251-100000@localhost> <20000203123135.A10816@lindt.urgle.com>
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Mike Bristow wrote:
>
> True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards
> (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported
> under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of the disk
> may turn turn into ext2 rather than ffs)
>
> The other 2 boxes will, of course, stay FreeBSD.
You'd switch operating systems for the sake of a sound card? That seems
backwards to this correspondent. Just buy a reasonable sound card that
works under your system of choice; they're less expensive than a system
installation.
> I generally get the feeling that `Workstation Hardware'[1] has a better
> chance of being supported under Linux than FreeBSD. I may be talking rubbish,
> though ;-)
>
> [1] SoundCards; funky USB magic to talk to your digital camera; that kind of
> thing.
USB? Linux? I don't think so.
--
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