software/hardware question

[Bill Moran]

Please wrap your lines around 72 characters or so.  See:
http://www.lemis.com/questions.html

mell miller wrote:
> hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going
 > that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid
 > question but since in the past i've disregarded such questions thinking
 > they were unimportant or that the answer was obvious only to later regret
 > it i shall ask my stupid question.  nearly all software and hardware is
 > window compatable and most require a windows o/s, does this mean bsd users
 > are left out in the cold or are there alternative releases or is most
 > software/hardware also compatable with a bsd o/s?

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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