From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 4 19: 5: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.snfc21.pbi.net (mta1.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.122]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC83D41F0 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:04:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org ([207.214.116.101]) by mta1.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FPF003XQSER71@mta1.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C335991525; Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:01:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:01:36 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search In-reply-to: <20000203123135.A10816@lindt.urgle.com> To: Mike Bristow Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mike Bristow wrote: > True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards > (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported > under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of the disk > may turn turn into ext2 rather than ffs) Well if you buy esoteric or just cheap hardware... > I generally get the feeling that `Workstation Hardware'[1] has a better > chance of being supported under Linux than FreeBSD. I may be talking rubbish, > though ;-) Cheap hardware has a better chance of being supported. If you stick with the name brand stuff, you could piece together a box that'll work great and work great with FreeBSD. Me, I've got my Micron PC (which was a pretty good deal when I bought it), and the onboard sound is AFAIK supported by that comercial Linux sound driver, but nothing else. The box also came with an AWE64, therefore I'm happy. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message