From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 7 1:24:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47F037B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1119443E65 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (13650485265475d8941f05d620edbb5b@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g878Q02e085002; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g878Q0jr085001; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:26:00 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: bsd@xtremedev.com Cc: chk no , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I make my Soundblaster Live! work under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020907082600.GB76893@vectors.cx> References: <20020906211856.I164-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> <20020907020916.S29082-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020907020916.S29082-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> (09.07.2002 @ 0115 PST): bsd@xtremedev.com said, in 1.6K: << > So then this poses the question. Are you the troll for assuming I am > trolling because I asked a simple curiosity based question for which I > didn't know the answer to, or are you just that presumptious to believe > that all replies that does not immmediately solves the original posters > question to be nothing but troll/flame bait? >> end of "Re: How do I make my Soundblaster Live! work under FreeBSD?" from bsd@xtremedev.com << blah blah blah blah blah etc. freebsd makes great servers. freebsd also makes great desktops. take a look sometime at the hundreds of audio, video, etc. ports in the ports tree. there's support for video-capture/editing, surround sound, dsp, and some good music composition and sequencing packages. people have done some pretty impressive work making freebsd do all sorts of wacky things. all my desktops are fbsd machines. focusing on the system as a server is fine, but implying that somebody was misusing freebsd by wanting to have a sound card that worked was what got fingers pointed at you. -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message