Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 04:06:44 +0100 From: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> To: "ericas_man7" <ericas_man7@netzero.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Questions on FreeBSD and its compatibilty with existing hardware & software? Message-ID: <012301c134ee$b4026080$0200a8c0@mark2> References: <CFEJKBICBIBIHOFDBLFJAEBACAAA.ericas_man7@netzero.net>
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> I'm curious to know, does FreeBSD run on AMD Athlon machines with DDR? Yes, I'm running this without any problems whatsoever. > How > do I find out if my current software and hardware is compatible with this > OS? Software - generally anything written for Unix is usually compatible one way or another, although this is most certainly not true 100% of the time. Anything written for Windows will not work, and that is also true of Linux, however under both Linux and FreeBSD there is various projects underway for emulating or running Windows from within the OS. See VMWare and Wine for details. As for hardware, see the Hardware Compatibility List for the latest release, this is usually the best resource for info. For the current 4.3-Release, see section 2 of the notes on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.3R/notes.html for information on supported hardware. Hope this helps, and best of luck with FreeBSD. Regards, Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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