Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:32:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: wanderer <wanderer@lamere.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curiosity made me send this. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322233030.12642O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <22504908603831@lamere.net>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, wanderer wrote: > May I ask you some questions? > > How would you compare FREEBSD to LInux? > > I have a Syquest parallel 270MB removable hard drive. Will that work with > BSD? no. > I have a SCSI HP T4000 Travan tape drive. Will that work? Sure. > I have a SCSI Syquest 1.5Gig. removable hard drive on the same line. Will > that work? Sure. > I have an SCSI HP IIcx color scanner on the same line. Will that work? Maybe. > I'm pretty sure that a joystick would work. Please correct me if I am > wrong. It has a driver, but not much to use it. > I have a Star NX2450 24pin Rainbow printer. Does FreeBSD support that? It'll print to it, but you have to generate the Star output format for it, and at last check ghostscript doesn't. > How about and Epson Stylus Color Bubble Jet printer? ghostscript will work great on it. > I understand that FreeBSD is great for networking, but I wonder if it would > support the NIC card that I am using. The brand was listed, but not that > model number. The card runs on the PCI bus.It was not listed in your > writeup. I do know that it will support the one NE2000 16 bit card that I > have. Well, what is it?? > I was also wondering about dual booting. Does FreeBSD support that, or > must it solely be the only operating system on the hard drive? Sure, using the boot manager of your choice. > Does BSD boot up from the hard-drive, or is it from a floppy? You install from a floppy, and run from the hard drive. > Linux supports running Windows 3.x 16 bit software via a program > designed for that purpose. Does FreeBSD have the same capability? It's probably the same software (WINE), which doesn't work too well. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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