From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 10:11:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D28716A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:11:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF9F43D60 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:11:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAUABI96031290; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:41:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:41:16 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <41AB8F9D.8070100@gmx.net> <41AC3509.40809@npf.pt.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <41AC3509.40809@npf.pt.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2064368.39UVRzh1Wj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411302041.16982.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Matthias Buelow cc: Pertti Kosunen cc: Paulo Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:11:25 -0000 --nextPart2064368.39UVRzh1Wj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:23, Paulo wrote: > There is something that intrigates me, I use FreeBSD since 1.x and I > still see people saying that > FreeBSD is not for this kind of application or that. Sorry but I don't > know of any limitation in the OS that precludes its use with computer > graphics applications, office, multimedia etc. Just bring in the > necessary drivers and libraries and it will be as good as any other OS > for developing any kind of applications. I think the issue is that those drivers _are_ pretty unusual for FreeBSD :( It's not the OS per se, but it still is an OS issue (IMHO :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2064368.39UVRzh1Wj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBrEdE5ZPcIHs/zowRAh/eAJ9BBQsGkI6hfBYIObk9C3gdnB9ZbgCeMtZZ niFDJc1r+lPEtvBqJIb9Ixs= =lkDO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2064368.39UVRzh1Wj--