software/hardware question

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:55:36 -0700 (PDT)
mell miller <mell_73044 at yahoo.com> 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?

I have had very good luck when it comes to using FreeBSD. There is a large amount of software existing in the ports.

Check out...
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html