From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 16 16:35:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A839637B560 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:35:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7CC132E1 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:35:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA20786; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:05:34 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:05:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: billy jack Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatability Message-ID: <20000217110534.A20710@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000216080947.98577.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000216080947.98577.qmail@hotmail.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 16 February 2000 at 0:09:47 -0800, billy jack wrote: > i have heard of free-BSD from some of my friends and have decided to > look into it. i have a few questions witch i was unable to find on > your site either due to its absence or just my overlooking it. i was > wondering if free-BSD will run on Sun's ultra sparc processor > specificaly there ultra sparc 80 workstation? and if so will it > support the quad chipset? No. FreeBSD runs on Intel and Compaq Alpha chips only. NetBSD has experimental support for UltraSPARC (http://www.NetBSD.org/). > another question i have is about the compatability with microsofts > operationg systems (win 95-98 and so on) i know that hardcore linux > users spit at the thought of microsoft products but compatability is > an important thing for me as i have much good software that is only > available on the windows platform. What do you mean by compatibility? You'll have trouble getting FreeBSD to crash as easily as Microsoft, for example. FreeBSD doesn't run (many) Microsoft programs directly, but it can read Microsoft file systems. Check the online handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html for more information. > please reply to this with any information you may be able to give to > this email address hiteresa@hotmail.com Please don't request this kind of special treatment. You should set your mail headers to where you want the reply to go. In this case, however, they're correct. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message