Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:09:20 +0000 From: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search Message-ID: <20000204110920.A13417@lindt.urgle.com> In-Reply-To: <389A403C.76F0D62F@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002021055590.10062-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002022158340.251-100000@localhost> <20000203123135.A10816@lindt.urgle.com> <389A403C.76F0D62F@softweyr.com>
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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
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