From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 5: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-189.telepath.com [216.14.0.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE0A037B62C for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 6886 invoked by uid 100); 19 Jul 2000 11:54:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14709.38623.556985.456028@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:54:07 -0500 (CDT) To: "oddtoddsworld" , Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bsd on E-machines In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Randy Katz > E-Machines are evil, but I'm sure they would run FreeBSD better than they > run Win98, they are very generic. > At 10:22 PM 7/18/2000 -0400, oddtoddsworld wrote: > >I was told I could not use bsd on a E-Machine 550r why? I dislike windows > >there are to many problems and I want something more stable and that I > >could program on and debug myself can you help me with this delema thanks Generic, but cost was the only objective. The sound card may or may not be supported, and the (Win)modem in them certainly won't work. Since it's free, the only thing you'll lose by trying it is the time.