From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 3 18:53: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F97432F for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id SAA18349; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:52:30 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA09045; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:52:30 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.241]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id SAA11378; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:52:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <389A403C.76F0D62F@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 19:58:04 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Bristow Cc: Alex Zepeda , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search References: <20000203123135.A10816@lindt.urgle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message