From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 4 3: 9:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lindt.urgle.com (lindt.urgle.com [195.173.172.169]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33183F4A for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 03:09:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mike by lindt.urgle.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12Ggc4-0003Ub-00; Fri, 04 Feb 2000 11:09:20 +0000 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:09:20 +0000 From: Mike Bristow To: Wes Peters Cc: Alex Zepeda , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search Message-ID: <20000204110920.A13417@lindt.urgle.com> References: <20000203123135.A10816@lindt.urgle.com> <389A403C.76F0D62F@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <389A403C.76F0D62F@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0700 X-Rated: Honduras, NORAD, IRA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. You're right of course. But the system of choice is EverQuest[1], not FreeBSD. 98% of the time it's on, it's running Windows. Until Verant produce a linux or FreeBSD or BeOS or whatever client, I don't have any choice in the matter. [1] at the moment. It'll probably change to some other game later. -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message