From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 4 9:44:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2B737B66C for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2A4855730C; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:45:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:45:06 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@yogotech.com, John Howie , Poul-Henning Kamp , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd bug in FreeBSD through at least 3.4 Message-ID: <20001004114506.A24813@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <200010022000.OAA18288@nomad.yogotech.com> <200010022148.OAA11591@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010022148.OAA11591@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:48:26PM +0000 X-FreeBSD-Header: This is a subliminal message from the vast FreeBSD conspiracy project. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD peorth.iteration.net 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:48:26PM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: | > [ Moved to -chat ] | > Really? Explain to me how Win95/NT 'supports' it's easier with day-day | > bugfixes in a manner that's better than FreeBSD? | I wish my Vaio's winmodem worked on FreeBSD. Same for the | sound card, and don't get me started on DVD playback support. Winmodem can't be helped. But sound and DVD both work on my VAIO z505js Sound was done by "device pcm," and DVD just "worked." Many people have had trouble installing drivers in WinXX. In fact, on my desktop system, FreeBSD supports a couple pieces of *new* hardware that Win2K cannot use. Lucent seems to have released a winmodem driver for linux. | > However, back to the issue at hand. Microsoft doesn't support old OS's | > like Win95 and NT3.5/4.0. Heck, support for Win98 just ended with the | > release of WinME. | | If you buy a new machine with an old OS, it's supported by | Microsoft for 90 days from date of purchse, so long as the | vendor has a contract with Microsoft. If you buy a new machine from Telenet with FreeBSD or BSD/OS, I think it would be supported... But, are you buying FreeBSD when you do an FTP install? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message