From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 12:51:34 2003 Return-Path: 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 7403037B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62E743F75 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5GJpWOg005014; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:51:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EEE1FC4.2050401@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:51:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mell miller References: <20030616185536.95983.qmail@web80304.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030616185536.95983.qmail@web80304.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: software/hardware question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:51:34 -0000 Please wrap your lines around 72 characters or so. See: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html mell miller wrote: > hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going > that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid > question but since in the past i've disregarded such questions thinking > they were unimportant or that the answer was obvious only to later regret > it i shall ask my stupid question. nearly all software and hardware is > window compatable and most require a windows o/s, does this mean bsd users > are left out in the cold or are there alternative releases or is most > software/hardware also compatable with a bsd o/s? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com