Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 07:57:05 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" <trzy@powernet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I Try FreeBSD? (was: SHOULD I TRY FREEBSD?) Message-ID: <367DFF51.581A649A@uk.radan.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19981220165217.0081dd30@powernet.net> <19981221115608.L24125@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Sunday, 20 December 1998 at 16:52:17 -0800, Bart > (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski wrote: > > Hello, > > I am considering using FreeBSD but I have some unanswered questions: > > [snip...] > > * Will FreeBSD support my SupraExpress 288i PnP modem? > > I don't know. If it's a real modem, the answer is probably yes. If > it's a ``winmodem'', the answer is no. But ``winmodems'' don't even > work on some Microsoft products. > I seem to recall reading somewhere recently that there was some software available to allow Winmodems run under Linux. Anyone have any info on this? You'd be better off with a non-Win modem, but if this will run under FBSD's Linuxulator then it would be useful for newbies who already have a Winmodem. > > * Should I spend the $70 for the FreeBSD and book to learn the O/S? > > Yes. Greg wrote the book so he should know ;-) > > > What are the payoffs of using FreeBSD along with Win95? > > You have to put up with Win95. You're better off using FreeBSD > without Win95. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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