From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 17:05:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14144 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14139 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA26192; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:06:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:06:00 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which vendors' PC you would recommend for FreeBSD? better with DVD supported In-Reply-To: <199808132308.SAA08253@detlev.UUCP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (moved to -questions for obvious reasons) I have a dell P2-300 system here, very nice, all hardware is good, however 2 problems with freebsd. the 905b card that came with it is currently only unofficially supported (hoping to change in a week or so) it has an atapi cdrom, atapi sucks under linux and freebsd. (both lack adequete hardware watchdog timers to reset the devices if they get wedged) try to get a scsi cdrom if you are getting cdroms and Intel Ether Express ProB cards. Alfred Perlstein -- Programmer @ HotJobs Inc. [- http://www.hotjobs.com/ -] |-- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD. \-- http://www.freebsd.org/ On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > I'm going to buy PCs and intend to have FreeBSD/Linux/NT/Win95 coexist. > > Which vendors' machines would you suggest? I don't worry about how to > > make them coexist but more concern with will the hardware be supported > > by FreeBSD and/or Linux. Please comment. > > I normally suggest homebrew. If you want a large OEM, I like Gateway > 2000. They tend to use fairly standard parts, or at least used to. > > The best suggestion: Ask the vendors you're considering about their > hardware. Look at the OSs' docs. The remainder is left as an > exercise to the reader. > > Best, > joelh > > -- > Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan > Fourth law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message