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- >>>>> "Jake" == Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> writes:
-
- [excellent description of Zip drives deleted]
- ...
- Jake> Yesterday I installed a regular 230MB Bernoulli drive (SCSI)
- Jake> at work on our 100MHz Pentium, and although it works fine
- Jake> with Windows NT and DOS, it does NOT work with Linux. :-(
-
- Sorry to hear that. I had hoped the days of SCSI incompatibility were
- behind us (everyone in the computer industry), at least for disk
- drives.
-
- Jake> One other thing (sorry to be so off-topic): Has anyone else
- Jake> been having problems with the ELF version of Linux?
- ...
- Jake> I'll have to recopy those libraries from a boot floppy or I
- Jake> can't even boot :-( In the meantime I'm very disenchanted
- Jake> with Linux, and I've decided to make the jump to FreeBSD
- Jake> when the next version is released in September. There is a
- Jake> Linux emulation library for FreeBSD which lets you play
- Jake> Linux DOOM, perhaps with sufficient work one could use
- Jake> Executor on it. I'll update this list as I find out more...
-
- People who want to discuss the merits of Linux vs. FreeBSD are welcome
- to contact Jake directly, but are encouraged to avoid starting a
- discussion on this list. Remember, we have many NEXTSTEP and
- DOS/Windows users who wouldn't be particularly interested in the
- discussion. I don't mind people piggybacking questions to the
- Executor community (within reason: no "do you need a green card?" type
- questions) on top of useful letters as long as the resulting
- discussion doesn't occur on the list.
-
- That being said, it is worth pointing out that Steven Wallace has
- already made enough modifications to the Linux emulation library that
- FreeBSD will soon be able to run Executor/Linux with no known FreeBSD
- specific incompatibilities. I don't know whether that will still be
- the case when we get an SVGAlib version out for Linux, though.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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