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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''


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